Noun: praia
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | praia |
| Plural f | praias |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonyms: areal, beira-mar, margem
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O Brasil é conhecido pelas suas praias arenosas. (Brazil is known for its sandy beaches.)
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Mas os Mouros que andauão pela praya, / Por lhe defender a agoa deſejada, / Hum de eſcudo embarcado, & de azagaya, / Outro de arco encuruado, & ſeta eruada:[…] (But the Moors who were around the beach, / to defend its desired water, / one who was embarked with a shield and an assegai, / other with a recurve bow and poisoned arrow: […]) [1572, Luís Vaz de Camões, “Canto Primeiro [Canto the First]”, in Os Luſiadas [The Lusiads], Lisbon: Casa de Antonio Gõçaluez, page 15r:]
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Matemática não é minha praia. (I'm not keen on mathematics.)
Nouns inflected like praia
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
1. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese praia, from Medieval Latin plagia, possibly from Latin plaga + Ancient Greek πλάγια (plágia). Doublet of plaga.
2. Cognate with Galician praia, Sicilian praja, Spanish playa, Catalan platja, Occitan plaja, French plage and Italian spiaggia. See: Galician Nouns '
praia', Spanish Nouns '
playa', Catalan Nouns '
platja', French Nouns '
plage', Italian Nouns '
spiaggia'.
Verbs referencing "praia"
Spanish Nouns
playa, Italian Nouns
spiaggia, Catalan Nouns
platja, Italian Nouns
piaggia, English Nouns
praya.
Translations