Noun: praga
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | praga |
| Plural f | pragas |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
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Estou cheio de azar, alguém deve ter-me rogado uma praga. (I've been very unlucky, someone must have put a curse on me.)
Nouns inflected like praga
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 praga (“sore, curse”), borrowed from Latin plāga (“wound, misfortune”). Compare the inherited chaga. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
praga', Old Portuguese Nouns '
praga', Latin Nouns '
plāga'.
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