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Portugal

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːt͡ʃəɡəl/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpɔːtjəɡəl/
  • UK: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /ˈpɔɹt͡ʃəɡəl/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American, rare: /ˈpɔɹtuɡɑːl/
  • CMU ARPABET: P AO1 R CH AH0 G AH0 L Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. Official name: Portuguese Republic. Capital and largest city: Lisbon.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A Portuguese person.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: archaic

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Portuguese Republic

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: European country, European nation

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese Portugal, from Latin Portucale < Portus Cale (former name of what is now the city of Vila Nova de Gaia), 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”). * An Iberian pronunciation of Ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaîa, “goddess of the Earth”).

Across languages

Translations

178 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: Portugal — country
  • Akan: Pɔɔtugal — country
  • Albanian: Portugali — country
  • Albanian: Portugalia — country
  • Amharic: ፖርቱጋል (portugal) — country
  • Arabic: الْبُرْتُغَال (al-burtuḡāl) — country
  • Arabic: البرتغال (al-burtuḡāl) — country
  • Arabic: البرتغال (il-burtuḡāl) — country
  • Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܦܘܼܪܬܘܼܓܵܠ (purtugal) — country
  • Armenian: Պորտուգալիա (Portugalia) — country
  • Aromanian: Purtugalii — country
  • Aromanian: Purtugãlii — country
  • Aromanian: Purtugalia — country
  • Aromanian: Purtugãlia — country
  • Assamese: পৰ্তুগাল (portugal) — country
  • Asturian: Portugal — country
  • Azerbaijani: Portuqaliya — country
  • Bashkir: Португалия (Portugaliya) — country
  • Basque: Portugal — country
  • Belarusian: Партуга́лія (Partuhálija) — country
  • Bengali: পর্তুগাল (portugal) — country
  • Breton: Portugal — country
  • Bulgarian: Португа́лия (Portugálija) — country
  • Burmese: ပေါ်တူဂီ (pautugi) — country
  • Buryat: Португал — country
  • Carpathian Rusyn: Портуґа́лія (Portugálija) — country
  • Catalan: Portugal — country
  • Chechen: Португали (Portugali) — country
  • Cherokee: ᏉᏧᎦᎵ (quotsugali) — country
  • Chinese Cantonese: 葡萄牙 (pou4 tou4 ngaa4) — country
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 葡萄牙 (Buò-dò̤-ngà) — country
  • Hakka Chinese: 葡萄牙 (Phù-thò-ngà) — country
  • Chinese: 葡萄牙 (Phû-tô-gâ) — country
  • Chinese Mandarin: 葡萄牙 (Pútáoyá) — country
  • Wu Chinese: 葡萄牙 (6bu-dau-nga) — country
  • Chuvash: Португали (Port̬ugali) — country
  • Cornish: Portyngal — country
  • Corsican: Portugallu — country
  • Corsican: Portogallu — country
  • Crimean Tatar: Portugaliya — country
  • Czech: Portugalsko — country
  • Danish: Portugal — country
  • Dhivehi: ޕޯޗުގަލް (pōcugal) — country
  • Dutch: Portugal — country
  • Dzongkha: པོར་ཅུ་གལ་ (por cu gal) — country
  • Esperanto: Portugalio — country
  • Esperanto: Portugalujo — country
  • Estonian: Portugal — country
  • Farefare: Pootugale — country
  • Farefare: Pootugal — country
  • Faroese: Portugal — country
  • Finnish: Portugali — country
  • French: Portugal — country
  • West-Frisian: Portegal — country
  • Friulian: Portugal — country
  • Galician: Portugal — country
  • Georgian: პორტუგალია (ṗorṭugalia) — country
  • German: Portugal — country
  • Greek: Πορτογαλία (Portogalía) — country
  • Paraguayan Guarani: Poytuga — country
  • Gujarati: પોર્ટુગલ (porṭugal) — country
  • Hausa: Portugal — country
  • Hawaiian: Pokukala — country
  • Hebrew: פּוֹרְטוּגָל (portugál) — country
  • Hindi: पुर्तगाल (purtagāl) — country
  • Hungarian: Portugália — country
  • Hunsrik: Portugal — country
  • Icelandic: Portúgal — country
  • Ido: Portugal — country
  • Indonesian: Portugal — country
  • Interlingua: Portugal — country
  • Irish: An Phortaingéil — country
  • Italian: Portogallo — country
  • Japanese: ポルトガル (Porutogaru) — country
  • Japanese: 葡萄牙 (Porutogaru) — country
  • Japanese: 葡国 (Pokoku) — country
  • Javanese: Portegal — country
  • Javanese: Portugis — country
  • Javanese: Portugal — country
  • Kannada: ಪೋರ್ಚುಗಲ್ (pōrcugal) — country
  • Kashubian: Pòrtugalskô — country
  • Kazakh: Португалия (Portugaliä) — country
  • Khmer: ព័រទុយហ្គាល់ (pɔətuygŏəl) — country
  • Korean: 포르투갈 (Poreutugal) — country
  • Korean: 포도아 (Podoa) — country
  • Korean: 뽀르뚜갈 (Pporeuttugal) — country
  • Northern Kurdish: Portekîz — country
  • Northern Kurdish: Portûgal — country
  • Kyrgyz: Португалия (Portugaliya) — country
  • Lao: ປອກຕຸຍການ (pǭk tui kān) — country
  • Latin: Lūsītānia — country
  • Latin: Portugallia — country
  • Latin: Portus Cale — country
  • Latin: Portucale — country
  • Latvian: Portugāle — country
  • Lithuanian: Portugalija — country
  • Livonian: Portugāl — country
  • Macedonian: Португалија (Portugalija) — country
  • Malay: Portugal — country
  • Malayalam: പോർച്ചുഗൽ (pōṟccugal) — country
  • Maltese: Il-Portugall — country
  • Manchu: ᠪᠣᠯᡨᠣᡤ᠋ᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠ (boltog'aliya) — country
  • Manx: Yn Phortiugal — country
  • Māori: Potukara — country
  • Marathi: पोर्तुगाल (portugāl) — country
  • Mirandese: Pertual — country
  • Mongolian: Португал — country
  • Mongolian: ᠫᠣᠷᠲ᠋ᠦ᠋ᠭᠠᠯ (portüɣal) — country
  • Navajo: Boojigol — country
  • Nepali: पोर्तगाल (portagāl) — country
  • Norman: Portûnga — country
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Portugal — country
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Portugal — country
  • Occitan: Portugal — country
  • Occitan: Portugau — country
  • Odia: ପର୍ତ୍ତୁଗାଲ୍ (parttugāl) — country
  • Church Slavic: Портогалїꙗ (Portogalija) — country
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: Portugal — country
  • Pashto: پورتګال (portogāl) — country
  • Dari: پُرْتَگَال — country
  • Iranian Persian: پُرْتُغال — country
  • Iranian Persian: پُرْتُگال — country
  • Pohnpeian: Pwohtiki — country
  • Polish: Portugalia — country
  • Portuguese: Portugal — country
  • Punjabi: ਪੁਰ੍ਤਗਾਲ (purtgāl) — country
  • Romanian: Portugalia — country
  • Romanian: Португалия (Portugalia) — country
  • Russian: Португа́лия (Portugálija) — country
  • Northern Sami: Portugal — country
  • Sardinian: Portugallu — country
  • Scots: Portugal — country
  • Scottish Gaelic: A' Phortagail — country
  • Serbo-Croatian: По̏ртугал — country
  • Serbo-Croatian: Порту̀га̄лија — country
  • Serbo-Croatian: Pȍrtugal — country
  • Serbo-Croatian: Portùgālija — country
  • Sicilian: Partugaḍḍu — country
  • Silesian: Portugalijo — country
  • Sinhalese: පෘතුගාලය (pr̥tugālaya) — country
  • Slovak: Portugalsko — country
  • Slovene: Portugálska — country
  • Lower Sorbian: Portugalska — country
  • Upper Sorbian: Portugalska — country
  • Spanish: Portugal — country
  • Sranan Tongo: Potogisikondre — country
  • Sundanese: Portugal — country
  • Sundanese: Portugis — country
  • Swahili: Ureno — country
  • Swedish: Portugal — country
  • Tagalog: Portugal — country
  • Tajik: Португалия (Portugaliya) — country
  • Tamil: போர்த்துகல் (pōrttukal) — country
  • Tamil: பொர்த்துகீசியா (porttukīciyā) — country
  • Tatar: Португалия (Portuğäliyä) — country
  • Telugu: పొర్చుగల్ (porcugal) — country
  • Tetum: Portugál — country
  • Thai: โปรตุเกส (bproo-dtù-gèet) — country
  • Tibetan: པོ་ཅུ་གྷལ (po cu ghal) — country
  • Tigrinya: ፖርቱጋል (portugal) — country
  • Turkish: Portekiz — country
  • Turkmen: Portugaliýa — country
  • Ubykh: Португаԯшәабла (Pʼortʼugalsŝwabla) — country
  • Ukrainian: Португа́лія (Portuhálija) — country
  • Ukrainian: Портуґа́лія (Portugálija) — country
  • Urdu: پُرْتُگال (purtugāl) — country
  • Urdu: پُرْتَگال (purtagāl) — country
  • Uyghur: پورتۇگالىيە (portugaliye) — country
  • Uzbek: Portugaliya — country
  • Vietnamese: Bồ Đào Nha — country
  • Volapük: Portugän — country
  • Welsh: Portwgal — country
  • Welsh: Portiwgal — country
  • Yakut: Португалия (Portugaliya) — country
  • Yiddish: פּאָרטוגאַל (portugal) — country
  • Yoruba: Pọtugi — country
  • Yucatec Maya: Lusíitáan — country
  • Zhuang: Buzdauzyaz — country
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