Noun: bainha
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | bainha |
| Plural f | bainhas |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like bainha
palestra,
indumentária,
metafísica,
histerectomia,
cumplicidade,
serifa,
sestra,
secura,
semana,
estrebaria,
estreiteza,
savana,
saroba,
sapata,
safena,
safira,
militança,
sacada,
sacola,
sanita, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bainha, from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”). Compare Galician vaíña, Spanish vaina, Catalan beina, also French gaine, Italian guaina. Doublet of vagem and vagina and related to baunilha. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
bainha', Old Portuguese Nouns '
bainha', Latin Nouns '
vāgīna', Galician Nouns '
vaíña', Spanish Nouns '
vaina', Catalan Nouns '
beina', French Nouns '
gaine', Italian Nouns '
guaina'.
Verbs referencing "bainha"
Italian Nouns
guaina, French Nouns
gaine, Galician Nouns
vaíña.
Translations