overwordExplorer
PORTUGUESE · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

colher.

spoon (eating utensil)

6 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/kuˈʎɛ(ʁ)/Brazil[kuˈʎɛ(h)]Brazil/koˈʎɛ(ʁ)/Brazil[koˈʎɛ(h)]Brazil

  1. spoon (eating utensil)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese cullar, collar, from Latin cochleārem (“spoon”). The Old Portuguese word was influenced by Old French cuiller (French cuiller / cuillère), from the same Latin root. Cognate with Galician culler, French cuillère, Spanish cuchara, Catalan cullera. Compare with caracol (“snail”).

verb/koˈʎe(ʁ)/Brazil[koˈʎe(h)]Brazil/koˈʎe(ɾ)/São-Paulo/koˈʎe(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro

  1. to harvest, get, reap, gather

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese colher, from Latin colligere (“to collect, to gather”). Compare also the borrowed doublets coligir and coligar. Cognate with Galician coller, Asturian coyer, and Spanish coger.

FROM WORD TO NAME

Try it on your idea.

colher has 6 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.

colher studiocolher workshello, colher

These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.

Explore the name generator

A word with a source.

Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.

Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.