galinha – Portuguese noun declension

Noun: galinha
Gender: f Hyphenation:

Singular f	galinha
Plural f	galinhas

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like galinha

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 galinha (“hen”), from Latin gallīna (“hen”), from gallus (“rooster”). By surface analysis, galo + -inha.
2. Compare Galician galiña. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'galinha', Old Portuguese Nouns 'galinha', Latin Nouns 'gallīna', Galician Nouns 'galiña'.

Verbs referencing "galinha"

Galician Nouns galiña.

Translations