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Penha

Penha

See also: penha

English

Proper noun

Penha

  1. A municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
  2. District of São Paulo, Brazil

French

Proper noun

Penha m

  1. Penha (municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
  2. Penha (São Paulo, Brazil)
    • 1955, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1993 ed., Plon, ISBN 978-2-259-00359-1, chap. XI, p. 109
      Sur le talus descendant vers le Tamanduatehy et qui domine les quartiers populaires du Braz et de la Penha, subsistaient encore en 1935 quelques ruelles provinciales et des largos : places carrées et herbues, entourées de maisons basses à toit de tuiles et à petites fenêtres grillagées, peintes à la chaux, [...]
      — On the slope which leads down to the Tamanduatehy and overlooks the working-class districts of Braz and Penha, there still remained, in 1935, a few small provinvial streets and largos, grassy squares surrounded by low, tiled and whitewashed houses with small barred windows. — 1973, John & Doreen Weightman (trans.), Tristes Tropiques, 2011 ed., Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-197073-8

Portuguese

Proper noun

Penha

  1. Penha (municipality in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil)
  2. Penha (district of São Paulo, Brazil)

penha

penha

See also: Penha

Portuguese

Noun

penha m (plural penhas)

  1. A rock, stone, cliff or outcropping.