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Portugal

See also: portugál, Portúgal, and Portugāl

Coat of arms of Portugal

English

Alternative forms

Portugall (obsolete)

Proper noun

Portugal

A country in Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. Member state of the European Union. Official name: Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa).

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:Portugal.

Derived terms

Portuguese

Translations

country

Afrikaans: Portugal
Albanian: Portugalia (sq)
Amharic: ፖርቱጋል ‎(Portugāl)
Arabic: اَلْبُرْتُغَال f ‎(al-burtuḡāl)
Armenian: Պորտուգալիա (hy) ‎(Portugalia)
Aromanian: Portogallia
Asturian: Portugal (ast)
Azeri: Portuqaliya (az)
Bashkir: Португалия ‎(Portugaliya)
Basque: Portugal (eu)
Belarusian: Партуга́лія f ‎(Partuhálija)
Bengali: পর্তুগাল ‎(pôrtugal)
Breton: Portugal m
Bulgarian: Португа́лия (bg) f ‎(Portugálija)
Burmese: ပေါ်တူဂီနိုင်ငံ ‎(pautuginuingngam)
Catalan: Portugal (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏉᏧᎦᎵ (chr) ‎(Quotsugali)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 葡萄牙 (zh) ‎(Pútáoyá)
Crimean Tatar: Portugaliya
Czech: Portugalsko (cs) n
Danish: Portugal (da)
Dutch: Portugal (nl)
Esperanto: Portugalio, Portugalujo
Estonian: Portugal (et)
Faroese: Portugal n
Finnish: Portugali (fi)
French: Portugal (fr) m
Galician: Portugal (gl) m
Georgian: პორტუგალია (ka) ‎(ṗorṭugalia)
German: Portugal (de) n
Greek: Πορτογαλία (el) f ‎(Portogalía)
Hawaiian: Pokukala
Hebrew: פורטוגל (he) f ‎(portogal)
Hindi: पुर्तगाल (hi) ‎(purtagāl), पुर्तगाल (hi) ‎(portugāl)
Hungarian: Portugália (hu)
Icelandic: Portúgal (is) n
Indonesian: Portugal (id)
Interlingua: Portugal (ia)
Irish: An Phortaingéil f
Italian: Portogallo (it) m
Japanese: ポルトガル (ja) ‎(Porutogaru), (obsolete) 葡萄牙 (ja) ‎(Porutogaru), 葡国 ‎(ぽこく, pokoku)
Kazakh: Португалия ‎(Portwgalïya)
Khmer: ប្រទេសព័រទុយហ្គាល់ ‎(prɑteih poatuykoal), ព័រទុយហ្គាល់ ‎(poatuykoal)
Korean: 포르투갈 (ko) ‎(Poreutugal)
Kurdish: Portekîz (ku)
Lao: ປອກຕຸຍການ (lo) ‎(pǭk tu nya kān)
Latin: Lusitania (la) f, Portugallia (la) f, Portus Cale m

Latvian: Portugāle (lv) f
Lithuanian: Portugalija (lt) f
Livonian: Portugāl
Macedonian: Португалија (mk) f ‎(Portugalija)
Malay: Portugal
Maltese: Portugall
Maori: Potukara
Mirandese: Pertual
Mongolian: Португал ‎(Portugal)
Navajo: Boojigol
Norman: Portûnga m
Northern Sami: Portugal
Norwegian:

Bokmål: Portugal (no)

Nynorsk: Portugal (nn)
Pashto: پورتګال ‎(Portogâl)
Persian: پرتغال (fa) ‎(Portoğâl)
Polish: Portugalia (pl) f
Portuguese: Portugal (pt) m
Punjabi: ਪੁਰ੍ਤਗਾਲ ‎(Purtagāl)
Romanian: Portugalia (ro) f
Russian: Португа́лия (ru) f ‎(Portugálija)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: Португал m, Португалија f

Roman: Portugal (sh) m, Portugalija f
Sicilian: Portugallu m
Silesian: Portugalijo f
Sinhalese: පෘතුගාලය ‎(pṛtugālaya)
Slovak: Portugalsko (sk) n
Slovene: Portugálska (sl) f
Spanish: Portugal (es) m
Swahili: Ureno (sw)
Swedish: Portugal (sv)
Tagalog: Portugal
Tajik: Португалия (tg) ‎(Portugaliya)
Tamil: போர்த்துகல் (ta) ‎(pōrttukal), பொர்த்துகீசியா ‎(porttukīciyā)
Telugu: పొర్చుగల్ ‎(porcugal)
Tetum: Portugál
Thai: โปรตุเกส (th) ‎(bprohdtòogèt)
Turkish: Portekiz (tr)
Turkmen: Portugaliýa
Ukrainian: Португа́лія (uk) f ‎(Portuhálija)
Urdu: پرتگال ‎(portugāl)
Uyghur: پورتۇگالىيە ‎(portugaliye)
Vietnamese: Bồ Đào Nha (葡萄牙)
Volapük: Portugän (vo)
Welsh: Portwgal f
West Frisian: Portegal
Yiddish: פּאָרטוגאַל n ‎(Portugal)
Yucatec Maya: Lusíitáan

Noun

Portugal ‎(plural Portugals)

(now rare) A Portuguese person.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.40:
  Some became Christians, from whose faith and race, even at this day (for it is an hundred yeares since) few Portugalls assure themselves; although custome and length of time be much more forcible counsellors unto such mutations than any other compulsion.

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Portugal

Portugal

Asturian

Proper noun

Portugal m

Portugal (country)

Related terms

portugués

Basque

Proper noun

Portugal

Portugal

Declension

"Portugal"

animate proper noun
	indefinite
absolutive	Portugal
ergative	Portugalek
dative	Portugali
genitive	Portugalen
comitative	Portugalekin
causative	Portugalentzat
benefactive	Portugalengatik
instrumental	Portugalez
inessive	Portugalen
locative	Portugaleko
allative	Portugalera
terminative	Portugaleraino
directive	Portugalerantz
destinative	Portugalerako
ablative	Portugaletik
partitive	Portugalik
prolative	Portugaltzat

Related terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

(Balearic) IPA^(key): /poɾ.tuˈɡal/
(Central) IPA^(key): /pur.tuˈɡal/
(Valencian) IPA^(key): /poɾ.tuˈɡal/

Proper noun

Portugal m

Portugal

Derived terms

(Portuguese):
- portugalès (obsolete)
- portugués (Valencian)
- portuguès

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɔrtyɣɑl/

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal n

Portugal

Derived terms

Portugees/Portugese

French

Proper noun

Portugal m

Portugal

Derived terms

portugais

Galician

Proper noun

Portugal m

Portugal

Related terms

portugués

German

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpɔɐ̯tuɡal]

Proper noun

Portugal n ‎(genitive Portugals)

Portugal

Derived terms

Livonian

Alternative forms

Portugāl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /portugɑl/

Proper noun

Portugal

Portugal
- Tiit-Rein Viitso, Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz, Tartu, Rīga: TÜ, LVA
  Portugal – Portugal – Portugāle
  Portugal – Portugal – Portugal

Declension

Declension of Portugal (235)

	singular (ikšlug)	plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv)	Portugal	–
genitive (genitīv)	Portugal	–
partitive (partitīv)	Portugalt	–
dative (datīv)	Portugalõn	–
instrumental (instrumentāl)	Portugalõks	–
illative (illatīv)	Portugalõ	–
inessive (inesīv)	Portugalõs Portugals	–
elative (elatīv)	Portugalõst Portugalst	–

Malay

Etymology

From Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /po(r)tuɡal/
Rhymes: -uɡal, -ɡal, -al

Proper noun

Portugal

Portugal

Norwegian Bokmål

Flag of Portugal

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal

Portugal

Related terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Proper noun

Portugal

Portugal

Related terms

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /poɾtuˈɡal/

Proper noun

Portugal

(Kingdom of) Portugal.
- 1214, The will of King Afonso II of Portugal, King Afonso II of Portugal:
  eu rei don afonſo pela gracia de deuſ rei de portugal. ſeendo ſano e ſaluo temẽte o dia de mia morte […]
  I, King Afonso, by the grace of God king of Portugal, being safe and sound, fearing the day of my death […]
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 224 (facsimile):
  Como ſanta maria de Terena q̇ e no Reino de Portugal, reſſucitou hũa menỹa morta.
  How Holy Mary of Terena, which is in the Kingdom of Portugal, resurrected a dead girl.

Descendants

Galician: Portugal
Portuguese: Portugal

Portuguese

Portugal

Etymology

From Old Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /puɾ.tu.ˈɣaɫ/
(Brazil) IPA^(key): /poχ.tu.ˈɡaw/, /poɾ.tu.ˈɡaw/

Proper noun

Portugal m (gender only indicated by adjectives, see usage note below)

Portugal (a country in western Europe)

Usage notes

The word "Portugal" is masculine when referred to by adjectives, but can it can never be indicated by articles. Therefore phrases like "o Portugal", "no Portugal" etc. don't exist; articleless forms such as "Portugal" and "em Portugal" are used instead.

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Bosnian, Serbian): Portùgālija

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pôrtuɡal/
Hyphenation: Por‧tu‧gal

Proper noun

Pȍrtugal m ‎(Cyrillic spelling По̏ртугал)

Portugal

Declension

Declension of Portugal

	singular
nominative	Portugal
genitive	Portugala
dative	Portugalu
accusative	Portugal
vocative	Portugale
locative	Portugalu
instrumental	Portugalom

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /poɾ.tu.ˈɡal/

Proper noun

Portugal m

Portugal

Derived terms

portugalés
portugalujo
portugués
portuguesada
portuguesismo

Swedish

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Portugal

Portugal

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish Portugal ‎(“Portugal”).

Proper noun

Portugál

Portugal

Etymology

From Late Latin Portugal, from Latin Portus Cale, former name of what is now the city of Oporto, from portus + Callus, which is disputed:

From the name of the Gallaeci, a Celtic tribe of Iberia.
From Latin calidus ‎(“warm”).
From Ancient Greek Καλλίς ‎(Kallís, “Beautiful”), referring to the Douro valley; see καλός ‎(kalós, “beautiful”).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔːt͡ʃəɡəl/, /ˈpɔːtjəɡəl/
(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔɹt͡ʃəɡəl/