Portuguese–English dictionary

furriel

(military rank) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Master of quartering.

furro

(informal) Of or related to the furry fandom or subculture.

furtado

(slang) Stolen. [from the 20th c.]

furtivamente

In a surreptitious manner; stealthily, furtively, secretly.

furtividade

The quality of being furtive.

furtivo

Characterized by or resembling stealth or secrecy.

furto

(usually, in the plural) A collection of quotes or references for use in speaking, for assembling a written document, or as an aid to a project of some sort; a crib sheet.

furto em lojas

(uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.

furúnculo

A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.

fusaiola

A flywheel, a weight attached to a spindle. [from c. 1460]

fusão

The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it.

fusca

(UK, Australia, NZ) A small car, the Volkswagen Beetle (original version made 1938–2003, similar models made 1997–2010 and since 2011).

fusco

Not shiny; having a matte finish or no particular luster or brightness.

fusiforme

(chiefly, _, botany, zoology) Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.

fusível

(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.

fuso

(spinning) A rod used for spinning and then winding fibres (especially wool), usually consisting of a shaft and a circular whorl positioned at either the upper or lower end of the shaft when suspended vertically from the forming thread.

fustão

Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.

fustigado

(figurative) Beset by trouble or difficulty.

futebol

A ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent.

futebol de mesa

(chiefly, _, US, Canada) table soccer (US), table football (UK)

futebolista

(American football, US, uncommon, dated) One who plays American football.

fútil

Incapable of producing results, useless; doomed not to be successful; not worth attempting.

futilidade

(uncountable) The quality of being futile or useless.

futon

A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.

futurismo

(art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.

futurista

In the style of futurism.

futurística

(arts) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.

futurístico

In the style of futurism.

futuro

(finance, commerce) Expected or scheduled to take place in the future.

fuzil

A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.

fuzileiro naval

(military, nautical) A soldier, normally a member of a marine corps, trained to serve on board or from a ship.

fuzuê

A complaint or noise; a scene.

gabar

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

gabar-se

(transitive) (used with "about" or "of") To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol.

gabardina

(uncountable, countable) A type of woolen cloth with a diagonal ribbed texture on one side.

gabaritar

(transitive, US, informal) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.

gabarito

A physical object whose shape is used as a guide to make other objects.

gabarola

Someone who constantly brags or boasts. [from late 16th c.]

gabinete

(computing, slang) A computer, or the case in which it is housed.

gadanhar

(transitive) To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. [from 1590s]

gadanheira

A machine that gathers the harvest (harvests the crop).

gado

Certain other livestock, such as sheep, pigs or goats. Also rarely applied to horses.

gaélica

Of or relating to the Gaels, the Goidel peoples of Scotland and Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages.

gaélico

Of or relating to the Gaels, the Goidel peoples of Scotland and Ireland, and the Manx, or their languages.

gafanhoto

Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; locust tree. [from 17th c.]

gafe

A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.

gagá

(informal) Mentally senile.

gaguejar

(transitive) To utter with a stammer, or with timid hesitancy.

gaio

A widespread species of jay, usually crested and with pinkish-brown plumage and a harsh screech (Garrulus glandarius).

gaiola

(countable) A cage to keep pet or zoological specimen birds in.

gaita

A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds).

gaita de beiços

A musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note.

gaita de foles

A musical wind instrument possessing a flexible bag inflated by bellows, a double-reed melody pipe and up to four drone pipes; any aerophone that produces sound using air from a reservoir to vibrate enclosed reeds.

gaiteiro

One who plays the bagpipes.

gaivão

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

gaivina

Any of various seabirds of the subfamily Sterninae (of the family Laridae) that are similar to gulls but are smaller and have a forked tail.

gaivota

A medium-sized gull, Larus canus.

gaja

(US, colloquial, slang, sometimes, dated) A woman or girl.

gajo

(informal, chiefly, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, dated, _) A male person.

gala

Celebratory; festive.

galáctico

(astronomy, specifically, sometimes capitalized) Relating to the Milky Way galaxy.

galante

Polite and attentive to ladies; courteous to women; chivalrous.

galático

(astronomy, specifically, sometimes capitalized) Relating to the Milky Way galaxy.

galáxia

(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. [from 19th c.]

galé

(nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.

galeão

A large, three masted, square rigged sailing ship with at least two decks.

galeirão

Any of various aquatic birds of the genus Fulica that are mainly black with a prominent frontal shield on the forehead.

galera

(informal, especially, with a possessive) A male friend.

galeria

(architecture) A covered passage, usually with shops on both sides.

galeria de drenagem

A channel crossing under a road or railway for the draining of water.

galerista

(This entry is a translation hub.) A person who buys and sells works of art

Gales

One of the four constituent countries of the United Kingdom, formerly a principality.

galesa

Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales. [from 16thc.]

galgo

A lean breed of dog used in hunting and racing.

galha

(plant disease) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).

galhada

A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.

galhardete

A flag, usually a broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by yachts to identify the owner's yacht club.

galho

A tree-branch, usually a primary one directly attached to the trunk.

Gália

(chiefly, historic) A historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.

Galícia

A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.

galiforme

A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.

Galileia

A mountainous geographic region in northern Israel.

Galileu

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), an Italian thinker and key figure in the scientific revolution who improved the telescope, made astronomical observations, and put forward the basic principle of relativity in physics.

galimatias

nonsense, gobbledygook

galinha

A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.

galinheiro

A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

galinhola

A medium-small wading bird, (Scolopax rusticola)

Galípoli

A peninsula in Turkey, north of the Dardanelles, between the Aegean and Marmara seas.

Galiza

A former kingdom and autonomous community in northwestern Spain.

Gallipoli

A peninsula in Turkey, north of the Dardanelles, between the Aegean and Marmara seas.

galo

A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.

galo-silvestre

(countable) Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. [from 1530s]

galocha

(British) Waterproof rubber boots, intended to be worn in wet or muddy conditions. Short forms: wellies (singular welly or wellie)

galopar

(intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.

galope

The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.

galpão

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding, especially a smallish one; a hut.

galvanizado

(British spelling) Of metal, coated with zinc as a form of protection against rust.

gama

A large collection.

gamão

A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.

gambá

Any American marsupial of the family Didelphidae in the order Didelphimorphia.

gâmbia

(countable) The tarsal joint of a digitigrade quadruped, such as a horse, pig or dog.

gambiarra

An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.

gambito

(chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.

gamo

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the hamster, ferret, shad and kangaroo.

Gana

A country in West Africa. Official name: Republic of Ghana.

ganância

A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.

ganancioso

Having greed; consumed by selfish desires.

gancho

(countable) A device with interlocking parts used for fastening things together, such as a fastener or a holder.

Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement, and proponent of nonviolence.

Ganexa

(Hinduism) A Hindu god of intellect, wisdom, gates, and beginnings, son of Parvati and Shiva.

ganga

A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.

Ganges

A river in India and Bangladesh, sacred within Hinduism.

gânglio

(neuroanatomy) A ganglion, cluster of many neuronal bodies where synapsing occurs.

gangorra

A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down.

gangrena

The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.

gângster

A member of a criminal or street gang.

gangue

(informal, often, derogatory) A close group of friends.

ganha-pão

The primary income-earner in a household.

ganhador

One who has won or often wins.

ganhadora

One who has won or often wins.

ganhar

(transitive) To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win. [from 14th c.]

ganho

The act of gaining; acquisition.

ganhos

The spoils of a win; something, usually money, that has been won, usually by gambling.

ganido

A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.

ganir

(intransitive) To make a sound resembling such a cry.

ganja

(especially, India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.

gansinho

A young goose.

ganso

A male goose.

ganso-do-havaí

The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.

Gante

The capital city of the province of East Flanders, Belgium.

ganza

(especially, India, Singapore, Caribbean) Marijuana, the inflorescence of the Cannabis sativa plant, smoked or ingested for euphoric effect.

ganzado

(slang) High on drugs, especially cannabis.

gar

(especially, US, Canada) Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.

garagem

A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.

garança

(organic compound) A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye.

garanhão

(colloquial) A sexually attractive, promiscuous male.

garantia

The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.

garantidamente

In a way which is certain; with certainty.

garantidor

(colloquial) A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.

garantir

(transitive, followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something).

garatuja

A small mindless sketch, etc.

garatujar

(ambitransitive) To draw or scribble aimlessly.

garça

Any of various wading birds of the genera Egretta or Ardea that includes herons, many of which are white or buff, and several of which develop fine plumes during the breeding season.

garçom

A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

garçonete

A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.

gardênia

Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers.

Garfield

An English surname, thought to be habitational.

garfo

(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).

garfolher

An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.

gargalo

The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.