Noun: irmã
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | irmã |
| Plural f | irmãs |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like irmã
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 irmãa, yrmãa, from Latin germāna (“sister”), from the adjective germānus (“of siblings”); more at irmão. By surface analysis, irmão + -a (forms feminine equivalents). See: Latin Nouns '
germāna'.
Verbs referencing "irmã"
Galician Nouns
irmá.
Translations