balão
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See also: balaõ
Portuguese
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French ballon.[1][2]
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ba‧lão
Noun
[edit]balão m (plural balões)
- balloon
- (chemistry) retort (flask used for distillation)
- (Brazil) roundabout (road junction)
- Synonym: rotunda
- (Portugal, colloquial) breathalyzer
- Synonyms: alcoolímetro, (Portugal) alcoolómetro, (Brazil) alcoolômetro, (Portugal) etilómetro, (Brazil) etilômetro, (Portugal) bafómetro, (Brazil) bafômetro
- (comics) speech bubble
- (soccer, colloquial) lob
References
[edit]- ^ “balão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “balão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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- Portuguese 2-syllable words
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