"cabelo" meaning in Portuguese

See cabelo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /kaˈbe.lu/ [Brazil], /kɐˈbe.lu/ [Portugal], [kɐˈβe.lu] [Portugal], /kɐˈbe.lu/ [Portugal, Southern] Audio: LL-Q5146 (por)-Santamarcanda-cabelo.wav [Portugal] (note: Porto) Forms: cabelos [plural], cabelinho [diminutive], cabelão [augmentative]
Rhymes: -elu Etymology: Etymology tree Latin capillus Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo Portuguese cabelo Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo (“hair”). Etymology templates: {{ety|pt|:inh|roa-opt:cabelo<t:hair><ety:inh<la:capillus<id:hair><t:hair>>>|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Latin capillus Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo Portuguese cabelo [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old Galician-Portuguese", "term" : "cabelo", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "roa-opt" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Portuguese", "term" : "cabelo", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "pt" }" data-lang="pt" data-title="cabelo"> Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabelo (“hair”). Head templates: {{pt-noun|m|aug=cabelão|dim=cabelinho}} cabelo m (plural cabelos, diminutive cabelinho, augmentative cabelão)
  1. hair, head of hair Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-cabelo-pt-noun-e~7LprV4 Categories (other): Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries, Pages using etymon with no ID, Pages with etymology trees, Pages with etymon, Portuguese entries with etymology texts, Portuguese entries with etymology trees, Portuguese entries with etymon, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 2 46 46 2 4 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 48 48 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages using etymon with no ID: 88 4 9 Disambiguation of Pages with etymology trees: 79 5 16 Disambiguation of Pages with etymon: 88 4 9 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymology texts: 83 4 13 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymology trees: 83 4 13 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with etymon: 90 3 7 Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 86 6 8
  2. hair (a single hair filament) Tags: masculine Synonyms: fio (alt: de cabelo)
    Sense id: en-cabelo-pt-noun-x1acmKrG
  3. (colloquial) body hair, especially if long Tags: colloquial, masculine Synonyms: pelo
    Sense id: en-cabelo-pt-noun-wSlDVsVU
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: capilar
Derived forms: cabelão [augmentative], cabeleira, cabeleireiro, cabeleiro, cabelinha, cabelinho [diminutive], cabelo de anjo, cabelo-das-feiticeiras, cabelo-de-cão, cabelo-de-negro, cabelo-de-vênus [Brazil], cabelo-de-vénus [Portugal], cabelos de anjo, cabelos-de-nossa-senhora, cabelos-de-raposa, cabelos-loiros, cabelos-louros, cabeludo, de arrepiar os cabelos, de cabelo na venta, descabelar, estar pelos cabelos, levantar cabelo, pôr os cabelos em pé, por um cabelo, ter cabelos no coração

Inflected forms

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          "text": "O cabelo dela era louro.",
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      "word": "de arrepiar os cabelos"
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      "word": "de cabelo na venta"
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      "word": "descabelar"
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      "word": "estar pelos cabelos"
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      "word": "levantar cabelo"
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      "word": "pôr os cabelos em pé"
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      "word": "por um cabelo"
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Portuguese dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.