"mulher" meaning in Portuguese

See mulher in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /muˈʎɛʁ/ [Brazil], [muˈʎɛh] [Brazil], /muˈʎɛʁ/ [Brazil], [muˈʎɛh] [Brazil], /muˈʎɛɾ/ [São-Paulo], /muˈʎɛʁ/ [Rio-de-Janeiro], [muˈʎɛχ] [Rio-de-Janeiro], /muˈʎɛɻ/ [Southern-Brazil], /muˈʎɛɾ/ [Portugal], /muˈʎɛɾ/ [Portugal], /muˈʎɛ.ɾi/ [Portugal, Southern], /muˈjɛɹ/ (note: Rural Central Brazil) Forms: mulheres [plural]
Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese muller, moller (hence also Galician muller), from Latin mulierem (“woman; wife”), of uncertain origin. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (milk; to milk). Cognate with Spanish mujer, Catalan muller, Italian moglie, and Romanian muiere. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|muller}} Old Galician-Portuguese muller, {{m|roa-opt|moller}} moller, {{cog|gl|muller}} Galician muller, {{inh|pt|la|mulier|mulierem|woman; wife}} Latin mulierem (“woman; wife”), {{inh|pt|ine-pro|*h₂melǵ-}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, {{cog|es|mujer}} Spanish mujer, {{cog|ca|muller}} Catalan muller, {{cog|it|moglie|}} Italian moglie, {{cog|ro|muiere}} Romanian muiere Head templates: {{pt-adj}} mulher m or f (plural mulheres)
  1. (derogatory, of a man) pansy; wimpy; effeminate Tags: derogatory, feminine, masculine Derived forms: mulheraça, mulherão [augmentative], mulherona [augmentative], mulherzona [augmentative], mulherzinha [diminutive], mulherinha [diminutive], mulherita [diminutive], mulherzita [diminutive], mulher da vida Related terms: mulherada, mulherengo, mulheril, mulherio, mulhermente
    Sense id: en-mulher-pt-adj-e4JnxSQI Categories (other): Portuguese entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 88 6 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: muié [pronunciation-spelling], mulé [pronunciation-spelling], molher [obsolete]

Noun

IPA: /muˈʎɛʁ/ [Brazil], [muˈʎɛh] [Brazil], /muˈʎɛʁ/ [Brazil], [muˈʎɛh] [Brazil], /muˈʎɛɾ/ [São-Paulo], /muˈʎɛʁ/ [Rio-de-Janeiro], [muˈʎɛχ] [Rio-de-Janeiro], /muˈʎɛɻ/ [Southern-Brazil], /muˈʎɛɾ/ [Portugal], /muˈʎɛɾ/ [Portugal], /muˈʎɛ.ɾi/ [Portugal, Southern], /muˈjɛɹ/ (note: Rural Central Brazil) Forms: mulheres [plural]
Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese muller, moller (hence also Galician muller), from Latin mulierem (“woman; wife”), of uncertain origin. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (milk; to milk). Cognate with Spanish mujer, Catalan muller, Italian moglie, and Romanian muiere. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|muller}} Old Galician-Portuguese muller, {{m|roa-opt|moller}} moller, {{cog|gl|muller}} Galician muller, {{inh|pt|la|mulier|mulierem|woman; wife}} Latin mulierem (“woman; wife”), {{inh|pt|ine-pro|*h₂melǵ-}} Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-, {{cog|es|mujer}} Spanish mujer, {{cog|ca|muller}} Catalan muller, {{cog|it|moglie|}} Italian moglie, {{cog|ro|muiere}} Romanian muiere Head templates: {{pt-noun|f}} mulher f (plural mulheres)
  1. woman (adult female human) Tags: feminine Synonyms: dona, senhora
    Sense id: en-mulher-pt-noun-pt:adult_female_human
  2. (with possessive pronoun, the preposition de, or in the vocative) wife (married woman) Tags: feminine Synonyms: esposa
    Sense id: en-mulher-pt-noun-pt:wife
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: muié [pronunciation-spelling], mulé [pronunciation-spelling], molher [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "english": "That woman reads books.",
          "text": "Aquela mulher lê livros.",
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          "english": "My wife isn’t here.",
          "text": "Minha mulher não está aqui.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "A mulher do João não está aqui.\nJohn’s wife isn’t here.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Come here, my wife.",
          "text": "Mulher, vem cá.",
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      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛh]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
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      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
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      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "São-Paulo"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛχ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
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      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
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        "2": "muiere"
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        {
          "word": "mulheraça"
        },
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          "tags": [
            "augmentative"
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          "word": "mulherão"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "augmentative"
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          "word": "mulherona"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "augmentative"
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          "word": "mulherzona"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "mulherzinha"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "mulherinha"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "diminutive"
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          "word": "mulherita"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "diminutive"
          ],
          "word": "mulherzita"
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        {
          "word": "mulher da vida"
        }
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        "(derogatory, of a man) pansy; wimpy; effeminate"
      ],
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        "of a man"
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "mulherada"
        },
        {
          "word": "mulherengo"
        },
        {
          "word": "mulheril"
        },
        {
          "word": "mulherio"
        },
        {
          "word": "mulhermente"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
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      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛh]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
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      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "São-Paulo"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛχ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
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      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɻ/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Brazil"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
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    },
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      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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    },
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          "english": "That woman reads books.",
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        {
          "english": "My wife isn’t here.",
          "text": "Minha mulher não está aqui.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "A mulher do João não está aqui.\nJohn’s wife isn’t here.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "Come here, my wife.",
          "text": "Mulher, vem cá.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "wife (married woman)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "de",
          "de#Portuguese"
        ],
        [
          "wife",
          "wife"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "the preposition de",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(with possessive pronoun, the preposition de, or in the vocative) wife (married woman)"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "with possessive pronoun"
      ],
      "senseid": [
        "pt:wife"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "esposa"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛh]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛh]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "São-Paulo"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛχ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɻ/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛ.ɾi/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "Southern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈjɛɹ/",
      "note": "Rural Central Brazil"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ],
      "word": "muié"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ],
      "word": "mulé"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "molher"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mulher"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Portuguese 2-syllable words",
    "Portuguese 3-syllable words",
    "Portuguese adjectives",
    "Portuguese countable nouns",
    "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Portuguese feminine nouns",
    "Portuguese lemmas",
    "Portuguese nouns",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mulheraça"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "augmentative"
      ],
      "word": "mulherão"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "augmentative"
      ],
      "word": "mulherona"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "augmentative"
      ],
      "word": "mulherzona"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "mulherzinha"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "mulherinha"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "mulherita"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "diminutive"
      ],
      "word": "mulherzita"
    },
    {
      "word": "mulher da vida"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "roa-opt",
        "3": "muller"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Galician-Portuguese muller",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "roa-opt",
        "2": "moller"
      },
      "expansion": "moller",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gl",
        "2": "muller"
      },
      "expansion": "Galician muller",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "mulier",
        "4": "mulierem",
        "5": "woman; wife"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin mulierem (“woman; wife”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*h₂melǵ-"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "mujer"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish mujer",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ca",
        "2": "muller"
      },
      "expansion": "Catalan muller",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "moglie",
        "3": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Italian moglie",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ro",
        "2": "muiere"
      },
      "expansion": "Romanian muiere",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese muller, moller (hence also Galician muller), from Latin mulierem (“woman; wife”), of uncertain origin. Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (milk; to milk). Cognate with Spanish mujer, Catalan muller, Italian moglie, and Romanian muiere.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "mulheres",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "mulher m or f (plural mulheres)",
      "name": "pt-adj"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "mu‧lher"
  ],
  "lang": "Portuguese",
  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "mulherada"
    },
    {
      "word": "mulherengo"
    },
    {
      "word": "mulheril"
    },
    {
      "word": "mulherio"
    },
    {
      "word": "mulhermente"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Portuguese derogatory terms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "pansy; wimpy; effeminate"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "pansy",
          "pansy"
        ],
        [
          "wimpy",
          "wimpy"
        ],
        [
          "effeminate",
          "effeminate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory, of a man) pansy; wimpy; effeminate"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of a man"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory",
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛh]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛh]",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "São-Paulo"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛʁ/",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[muˈʎɛχ]",
      "tags": [
        "Rio-de-Janeiro"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɻ/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛɾ/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈʎɛ.ɾi/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal",
        "Southern"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/muˈjɛɹ/",
      "note": "Rural Central Brazil"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ],
      "word": "muié"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ],
      "word": "mulé"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "molher"
    }
  ],
  "word": "mulher"
}

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