Portuguese–English dictionary

Ahasverus

A king of Persia, later identified with Xerxes.

ahdiantado

At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.

Ahmadia

An Islamic denomination, considered by some to be a separate religion, founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, who is considered to be the Mahdi.

Ahmadiyya

An Islamic denomination, considered by some to be a separate religion, founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, who is considered to be the Mahdi.

ai

An expression of sorrow or mourning.

aí!

An exclamation of pleasure or approval, usually transcribed with an exclamation point.

aia

An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.

aião

A small plain-colored bird of the family Apodidae that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight.

aiatolá

(Shi'ism) A religious leader in Twelver Shi'ism.

Aída

A en given name in quiet use since the 1870s.

AIDS

(disease) Acronym of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. [from 1982]

Ain

A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Bourg-en-Bresse (INSEE code 01).

ainda

(idiomatic) Up to the present.

ainda assim

In spite of that (preceding a remark (or fact) within a given discourse).

ainda que

Although, despite (it) being.

aio

An older person who accompanies other younger people to ensure the propriety of their behaviour, often an older woman accompanying a young woman.

airbag

(automotive) A protective system in automobiles in which when a crash occurs, a bag containing nitrogen, formed by the explosive decomposition of sodium azide, quickly inflates in front of the driver or passenger, preventing injury to the head. Side air bags, including the back seat passengers, also prevent injury.

ais

Used to form the superlative of adjectives and adverbs.

aistórico

Lacking historical perspective or context.

Aixa

A en given name, most famously borne by Muhammad's third wife. Daughter of first caliph Abu Bakr.

Aizu

A region in western Fukushima Prefecture. Primary city is Aizu Wakamatsu (会津若松).

Ájax

(Greek mythology) Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.

ajeitar

(ambitransitive) To fiddle with something in an attempt to fix, mend or improve it, especially in an experimental or unskilled manner.

ajoelhar-se

(intransitive) To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position.

ajuda

(uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.

ajudante

An attendant, assistant, or follower.

ajudar

(transitive) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action). [late 16th c.]

ajustado

Which has been compensated in order to avoid bias.

ajustador

One who adjusts something, especially the amount of compensation due in an insurance claim.

ajustamento

The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration

ajustar

(transitive) To tailor; to change to the appropriate size.

ajustável

capable of being adjusted

ajuste

The result of adjusting something; a small change; a minor correction; a modification or alteration

Akio

A en given name.

akita

A large dog of a Japanese breed from the mountainous northern regions of Japan.

Alá

(Islam) God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts

alabama

A Muskogean language, spoken by the Alabama people.

alabastrino

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster.

alabastro

A fine-grained white or lightly-tinted variety of gypsum, used ornamentally.

alacrão

Any of various arachnids of the order Scorpiones, related to the spiders, characterised by two large front pincers and a curved tail with a venomous sting in the end.

alacridade

Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.

alado

Having wings.

alagado

Filled with water from rain or rivers.

alagar

To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.

alamar

An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button, toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.

alambique

An early chemical apparatus, consisting of two retorts connected by a tube, used to purify substances by distillation.

Alambra

A palace in Granada, Spain; historically a royal palace.

alambre

A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]

alameda

A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.

Álamo

A fort in San Antonio, Texas, United States, site of the Battle of the Alamo.

Alan

A en given name.

Alana

A en given name.

alano

(historical) A member of a group of Sarmatian tribes, nomadic pastoralists of the 1st millennium AD who spoke an Eastern Iranian language derived from Scytho-Sarmatian and which in turn evolved into modern Ossetian.

alaque

A block or slab upon which a column, pedestal, statue or other structure is based.

alaranjado

Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.

alargamento

The action of the verb widen.

alargar

(transitive) To make wide or wider.

Alarico

A historic king of the Visigoths.

alarmado

(not comparable) Having an alarm fitted.

alarmante

Causing apprehension, fear or alarm; frightening.

alarmantemente

In an alarming way, frighteningly.

alarme

A clock with an alarm that can be set to sound at a determined time.

alasquiana

Of or pertaining to Alaska, its people, or their culture.

alasquiano

Of or pertaining to Alaska, its people, or their culture.

alaúde

A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

alavanca

A small such piece to trigger or control a mechanical device (like a switch or a button).

alavancar

(transitive) To move with a lever.

alazão

(especially, of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour.

albacora

A longfin tuna, a large marine fish (Thunnus alalunga) of warm seas, having edible flesh.

albanês

Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian people or the Albanian language. [from 1593]

albanesa

A native or inhabitant of Albania; a person of Albanian citizenship or nationality and their descendants. [from 1569?]

Albânia

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Albania. Capital and largest city: Tirana. [from ca. 1503]

Albano

A en given name.

Albany

The capital city of the state of New York in the United States, and the county seat of Albany County, New York.

albergue

(countable) Any place of shelter.

Alberta

A province in western Canada. Capital: Edmonton. Largest city: Calgary.

Alberto

A en given name.

Albi

A town and commune, the prefecture of Tarn department, Occitania, in southern France.

albina

Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.

Albino

A en given name.

Álbion

(now, poetic) Great Britain (or sometimes just England or the British Isles).

albufeira

A shallow body of water separated from deeper sea by a bar.

álbum

A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published as such a bound collection of sheets, but now sometimes electronically as an e-book.

albúmen

The white part of an egg; being mostly the protein albumin and water.

Albuquerque

The largest city in New Mexico, United States; the county seat of Bernalillo County.

alburnete

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

alça

The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.

alcáçar

Any Moorish fortress in Spain.

alcácer

Any Moorish fortress in Spain.

alcachofra

(countable) A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.

alcachofra hortense

(countable) A plant related to the thistle with enlarged flower heads eaten as a vegetable while immature, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus.

alcaçuz

(countable) A plant of species Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.

alçado

(architecture) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.

alcaguetar

(transitive, or, intransitive, slang) To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities.

alcaguete

(countable, Britain, slang) An informer, police informer; one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities.

álcali

(chemistry) One of a class of caustic bases, such as soda, soda ash, caustic soda, potash, ammonia, and lithia, whose distinguishing characteristics are dissolving in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue.

alcalinidade

(chemistry) The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.

alcalino

Of, or relating to an alkali, one of a class of caustic bases.

alcançar

(transitive) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at (a place, time, state, etc.).

alcançável

Able to be accomplished, achieved, or obtained.

alcance

(obsolete) A space within limits; an area.

alcano

(organic compound) Any acyclic saturated hydrocarbon (methane, ethane, etc.).

alçapão

A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.

alcaparra

The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled and eaten.

alçar

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

alcateia

(zoology, collective) A company of lions or other large felines.

alcatifa

A fabric used as a complete floor covering.

alcatra

A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.

Alcatraz

An island in San Francisco Bay California, United States, formerly the site of a famous prison; in full, Alcatraz Island.

alcatroar

(transitive) To coat with tar.

alce

The largest member of the deer family (Alces americanus, sometimes included in Alces alces), of which the male has very large, palmate antlers.

álcool

Alcoholic beverages in general.

álcool etílico

(organic compound) A simple aliphatic alcohol formally derived from ethane by replacing one hydrogen atom with a hydroxyl group: CH3-CH2-OH.

álcool metílico

(organic compound) The simplest aliphatic alcohol, CH3OH; a colourless, toxic, inflammable liquid, used as a solvent, antifreeze, in the chemical industry, and in the preparation of methylated spirit.

alcoolicamente

In the manner of an alcoholic.

alcoolicidade

A measure of the alcoholic content of something

alcoolímetro

A specialized form of hydrometer used to measure the amount of alcohol in a liquid (such as beer).

alcoolismo

A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.

alcoolizado

saturated, infused or under the influence of alcohol

alcoolómetro

A specialized form of hydrometer used to measure the amount of alcohol in a liquid (such as beer).

alcova

(architecture) A small recessed area set off from a larger room.

alcovitagem

The practise of managing and hiring out prostitutes.

alcovitar

(intransitive) To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.

alcoviteiro

Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.

alcunha

A personal name or nickname; an informal label, often drawing attention to a particular attribute.

alcunhar

(transitive) To give a nickname to (a person or thing).

aldeã

A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.

aldeão

A person who lives in, or comes from, a village.

aldeia

A small village or a group of houses.

aldeola

A small village or a group of houses.

aldeota

A small village or a group of houses.

aldrava

(architectural elements) A knocker mounted on a door.

aldrina

An insecticide and persistent organic pollutant containing a naphthalene-derived compound.

aleatoriamente

Randomly, haphazardly.

aleatório

Depending on the throw of a die; random, arising by chance.

alecrim

A shrub, Salvia rosmarinus (formerly Rosmarinus officinalis), that originates from Europe and Asia Minor and produces a fragrant herb used in cooking and perfumes.

alegação

An assertion, especially an accusation, not necessarily based on facts.

alegado

Asserted but not proved.

alegar

(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.

alegoria

(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of symbols which may be interpreted to reveal a hidden, broader message, usually a moral or political one, about real-world issues and occurrences; also, the interpretation of such symbols.

alegorizar

To create an allegory from (a character, an event or situation, etc.); also, to use one or more symbols to depict (a hidden, broader message about real-world issues and occurrences).

alegre

In good spirits; happy, optimistic.

alegremente

In a happy or cheerful manner; with happiness.

alegria

Eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm.

alegro

(music) in a quick and lively manner

aleijada

(offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

aleijado

(offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

aleijar

(chiefly, of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.

aleitamento

(countable) An instance (session) of such feeding activity.

aleitar

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.