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palha.

straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpa.ʎɐ/Brazil/ˈpa.ʎɐ/Portugal
  1. straw (a dried stalk of a cereal plant)

    feminine
  2. straw considered collectively

    feminine · uncountable
  3. textile made of straw

    feminine
  4. padding, waffle

    Portugal · colloquial · feminine
  5. trifle (something without importance)

    colloquial · feminine
  6. trifle (something without importance) cards that give no points in sueca

    colloquial · feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese palha, from Latin palea (“straw”), from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Cognate with Galician palla and Spanish paja.

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