Portuguese–English dictionary

jornal

(countable, metonym) The news organization that produces such a publication.

jornalismo

The aggregating, writing, editing, and presenting of news or news articles for widespread distribution, typically in electronic publications, broadcast news media, or printed newspapers or periodicals, for the purpose of informing the audience, relying on a style of writing characteristic for this purpose, consisting of direct presentation of facts or events and (depending on type) either with or without analysis or interpretation.

jornalista

A person at a newspaper, publisher or similar institution who edits stories and/or decides which ones to publish.

jornalístico

Related to journalism or journalists.

jorrar

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

jorro

A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.

José de Arimateia

(Christianity) Joseph of Arimathea; man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus.

Josefina

A en given name.

Josias

(biblical character) A king of Judah.

jota

The name of the Latin-script letter J/j.

jovem

(colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.

jovens

In the early part of growth or life; born not long ago.

jovial

(comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry.

jovialidade

The state of being jovial; jollity or conviviality.

joviano

(Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.

juba

All the hair that covers the scalp of a person (excludes the beard and moustache)

jubilar

(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

jubileu

A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage. [from late 14th c.]

júbilo

Perfect happiness.

judaico

Of or relating to Jews, their ethnicities or cultures.

judaísmo

An Abrahamic religion tracing its origin to the Hebrew people of the ancient Middle East, as documented in their religious writings, the Tanakh.

judaizar

(transitive) To impose Jewish beliefs or customs on someone; to convert to Judaism; to make Jewish.

judas

A traitor; a person not to be trusted.

Judeia

Roman rendition of Judah. Used after the fall of the Davidic dynasty and through the period as part of the Roman Empire.

judeu

A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

judia

A member or descendant of the Jewish people.

judiação

Cruel, abusive, unfair, or thoughtless treatment of a person or animal (or rarely an object).

judiar

(transitive) To treat someone, or something roughly or badly.

judiaria

(historical) The quarter of a town or city inhabited either partially or exclusively by Jews; historically, its main buildings were the synagogue, the ritual bath or mikve, the kosher-oriented butchery and bakery, etc. [from 17th c.]

judiciário

Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.

judicioso

Having, characterized by, or done with good judgment or sound thinking.

judo

A Japanese martial art and sport adapted from jujutsu.

jugal

Pertaining to the cheek.

jugo

(uncountable) The state of being under the control of another person.

Jugoslávia

(historical) A former country in Southeast Europe in the Balkans, now split into 6 countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia.

jugoslavo

(historical) Of or relating to Yugoslavia.

jugular

(anatomy, relational) Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.

juiz

A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.

juíza

A person officiating at a sports event, a contest, or similar; referee.

juizado

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

Juízes

(book of the bible) The seventh book of the Old Testament, and a book of the Hebrew Tanakh.

juízo

(legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.

juke-box

A coin-operated machine that plays recorded music, with push-buttons to make selections. [from 1939]

Jukov

A transliteration of the Russian surname Жу́ков (Žúkov).

julgador

A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

julgadora

A person who evaluates something or forms an opinion.

julgamento

(chiefly combat sports) A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.

julgamento nulo

(legal) A trial that is prematurely ended upon being declared invalid because of an error in procedure, or because of a hung jury.

julgar

(intransitive, law) To determine or judge.

julho

The seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, following June and preceding August.

Júlia

A en given name.

Juliana

A en given name.

juliano

Of or relating to Julius Caesar.

Júlio

A en given name.

jumenta

A stubborn person.

jumento

A domestic animal, Equus asinus asinus, similar to a horse.

jumper

A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.

jun

Abbreviation of June.

junção

The coming together of things; union.

junco

(AU) Any of various reed-like plants growing near water, especially Typha domingensis and Typha orientalis; cumbungi, wonga. [from 18th c.]

jungir

To be or become connected, linked, or united in a relationship; to have dealings with.

junho

The sixth month of the Gregorian calendar, following May and preceding July, containing the northern solstice.

junípero

Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.

junta

A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

junta dos dedos

Any of the joints between the bones of the fingers.

junta militar

The ruling council of a military dictatorship.

juntador

A thing that joins two separate items, e.g. software to connect video or music clips.

juntamente com

Together with or at the same time.

juntar

(transitive) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum.

juntar-se

(ergative) To gather as a group.

juntar-se a

(transitive) To come into the company of.

junto

written in a single word.

junto a

Together with or at the same time.

junto à estrada

(US) To the side of the road, past the curb and sidewalk.

juntura

A place where things join, a junction.

jupiteriano

(Roman mythology) Pertaining to the Roman god Jove or Jupiter (the counterpart of the Greek god Zeus); Jove-like; befitting Jupiter.

jura

A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.

jurada

(law) A member of a jury.

jurado

(law) A member of a jury.

juramento

Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.

jurar

(archaic) To pledge.

Jurássico

(geology, paleontology) The period from 201.3±0.2 to 145 million years ago, after the Triassic and before the Cretaceous; the geologic systems of this period.

júri

(law) A group of individuals chosen from the general population to hear and decide a case in a court of law.

jurídico

Relating to the law or to lawyers.

jurisconsulto

(law) An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.

jurisdição

The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.

jurisdicional

Of or pertaining to jurisdiction.

jurisprudência

Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation.

jurista

(law) An expert of law or someone who researches jurisprudence.

juros

(uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]

juros compostos

(banking, finance) Interest, as on a loan or a bank account, that is calculated on the total on the principal plus accumulated unpaid interest.

jusante

Further along in the flow of current, in relation to a river, stream, bloodstream, or other flow of fluid.

juso

(comparable) From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.

justa

A tilting match: a mock combat between two mounted knights or men-at-arms using lances in the lists or enclosed field.

justamente

In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.

justapor

(transitive) To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.

justaposição

(grammar) An absence of linking elements in a group of words that are listed together.

justeza

The state or characteristic of being just or fair.

justiça

The state or characteristic of being just or fair.

justiça social

Fairness in society.

justiceiro

A person who acts outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.

justificação

(countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.

justificativa

(countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.

justificável

That can be justified.

justificavelmente

in a justifiable manner; with justification

Justino

A en given name.

Justo

A en given name.

Jutlândia

A cultural region and peninsula in northwestern Europe, consisting of the mainland part of Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, which is part of Germany.

juvenil

Young or seeming young.

juventude

(uncountable) The quality or state of being young.

ka

A representation of laughter.

kabaddi

A South Asian team sport in which players must hold their breath while making raids into the opposing team's half of the field.

kabuki

(often, capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

kabuum

The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

kafkiano

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.

kaftan

A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

kaiser

An emperor of a German-speaking country, particularly the Holy Roman Empire (962–1806), the Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary (1806–1918), or the German Empire (1871–1918) — often specifically Wilhelm II.

Kali

(Hinduism) A male demon, lord of Kali Yuga and the nemesis of Kalki, tenth avatar of Vishnu.

kana

The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.

kanji

Any individual Chinese character as used in the Japanese language.

Karachi

The largest city in Pakistan situated along the Arabian Sea, as well as the provincial capital of Sindh Province.

karaokê

(uncountable) A form of entertainment popular in clubs, at parties, etc, in which individual members of the public sing along to pre-recorded instrumental versions of popular songs, the lyrics of which are displayed for the singer on a screen in time with the music.

karaté

An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.

Karen

A en given name.

kármico

Of or pertaining to karma.

Karnataka

A state in southern India. Capital: Bangalore.

kart

A small motor vehicle resembling a car; a go-cart.

katakana

(uncountable) A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.

Katmandu

The capital city of Nepal.

kawaidade

(chiefly, in the context of Japanese culture) The quality of being kawaii; cuteness.

kebab

(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.

kelvin

In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1⁄273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water.

Kenneth

A en given name, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.

Kent

A maritime county in southeast England bordered by East Sussex, Surrey, Greater London, the North Sea and the English Channel.

Kerala

A state in southern India. Capital: Thiruvananthapuram (formerly known as Trivandrum).

kernel

(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.

ketchup

(uncountable, chiefly, US, Canada, UK) Ellipsis of tomato ketchup (“a tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners”).

kettlebell

A weight consisting of a cast iron ball with a single handle for gripping the weight during exercise.

Kevin

A en given name.

KGB

(historical) The Committee for State Security of the Soviet Union (the Soviet security service).

khat

A shrub, Catha edulis, whose leaves are used as a mild stimulant when chewed or brewed as tea; also a drug produced from this plant.

khmer

A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.

Khrushchov

English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв; usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.

kibutz

A community, usually an agricultural one in Israel, based on a high level of social and economical sharing, equality, direct democracy and tight social relations.

kickar

(transitive, Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.

kickboxe

(martial arts) A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate, and especially boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches.

kickboxing

(martial arts) A hybrid martial art derived from Muay Thai, karate, and especially boxing during the 1960s to 1970s; more generally, any stand-up combat sport that combines kicks and punches.

kielbasa

A spicy, smoked sausage of a particular kind from Eastern Europe.

Kilimanjaro

A volcano in Tanzania, the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters (19,321 feet).

kilo-

(computing, deprecated) .