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15 unusual facts about portuguese language


Assembleia Nacional

Assembleia Nacional is a Portuguese expression meaning National Assembly.

Boa Viagem

The Portuguese language greeting for good travel, equivalent to French Bon voyage

Brazilian guinea pig

The Brazilian guinea pig (Cavia aperea) (preá in Portuguese) is a guinea pig species from South America.

Changing Tides

Changing Tides (Portuguese: Mau Tempo, Marés e Mudança - 1976) is a Portuguese feature-length film by Ricardo Costa, his first docufiction, preceding Bread and Wine (1981) and Mists (2003).

Desconhecido

The word "Desconhecido" is a Portuguese word meaning "unknown" or "stranger".

Jim Borgman

"Zits" is syndicated in over 1500 newspapers around the world and is translated into eight languages, including German, Chinese, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and Finnish.

Mestre da Capela Real

Mestre da Capela Real (Master of the Royal Chapel) was the Portuguese term used to designate the person who was in charge of all musical details related with the churches and chapels of the Kings of Portugal.

Moçambola

Moçambola (or Campeonato Moçambicano de Futebol, Portuguese for Mozambican Football Championship) is the top division of Mozambican football (soccer), and it is organized by the Mozambican Football Federation.

Nova Olímpia

There are places that have the name Nova Olímpia (Portuguese meaning New Olympia, probably named after Olympia or is probably named after Maria Olímpia Rodrigues Vieria in São Paulo which is related, the origin is uncertain) in Brazil

Pampas fox

In Portuguese-speaking Brazil, its is called by the common names of graxaim or sorro.

Pensa

Pensa is the present tense third person conjugation for the verb pensar ("to think") of the Portuguese language.

Portuguese language

# Paulistano  — Variants spoken around Greater São Paulo in its maximum definition and more easterly areas of São Paulo state, as well perhaps "educated speech" from anywhere in the state of São Paulo (where it coexists with caipira).

# Carioca  — Not a dialect, but sociolects of the fluminense variant spoken in an area roughly corresponding to Greater Rio de Janeiro.

São Caetano

São Caetano is the Portuguese language name for Saint Cajetan, and is a common toponym in parts of the world where that language is or was spoken.

The Assailant

The Assailant (Portuguese also known as Besouro) is a 2009 Brazilian action-drama film directed by João Daniel Tikhomiroff.


1998 Saint Silvester Road Race

The 74th Saint Silvester Marathon, or Race (in Portuguese: 74ª Corrida de São Silvestre), was held in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 31, 1998.

2 Filhos de Francisco

2 Filhos de Francisco - A História de Zezé di Camargo e Luciano (Portuguese for Two Sons of Francisco - The History of Zezé di Camargo and Luciano) is a 2005 Brazilian drama film about the lives of the musicians Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano.

A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening

First published in Portugal in Portuguese in 1994 as Um Deus Passeando Pela Brisa da Tarde, the novel won several awards, including the 1996 Pegasus Prize, and became a best-seller in Portugal.

Alda Lara

Alda Ferreira Pires Barreto de Lara Albuquerque, known as Alda Lara (9 June 1930, Benguela, Angola - 30 January 1962, Cambambe, Angola) was a Portuguese language Angolan poet.

Alfredo Toro Hardy

His book The Age of Villages, with a foreword by Victor Bulmer-Thomas, Director of Chatham House, won the “Latino Book Award” (best book by an author whose original language is in Spanish or Portuguese) in the category of contemporary history/political sciences, at the BookExpo America celebrated in Chicago in 2003.

Ali Abdolrezaei

Ali Abdolrezaei's poems have been translated into a variety of languages including English, German, French, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian and Urdu.

Amanhã É Tarde

Amanhã É Tarde (Portuguese for Tomorrow's Too Late) is the fifth studio album by Brazilian band Fellini, and it was released in 2001 by independent carioca label Midsummer Madness.

Amit Offir

On 2013 Amit's books were translated to other languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and many more.

Angolan Communist Party

Angolan Communist Party (in Portuguese: Partido Comunista Angolano) was an underground political party in Portuguese Angola (during the Estado Novo regime), founded in October 1955, under influence from the Portuguese Communist Party.

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira

Aurélio Buarque de Holanda Ferreira (May 3, 1910 – February 28, 1989) was a Brazilian lexicographer, philologist, translator, and writer, best known for editing the Novo Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, a major dictionary of the Portuguese language.

Brigadeiro

Brigadeiro (Portuguese for Brigadier; also known in some southern Brazilian states as negrinho, literally "blackie") is a simple Brazilian chocolate bonbon, created in the 1940s and named after Brigadier Eduardo Gomes, whose shape is reminiscent of that of some varieties of chocolate truffles.

Canadian Newcomer Magazine

Although the magazine’s philosophy has always been to offer information in the languages of the marketplace in Canada, their website also offers multilingual editions (available in .pdf format) in Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese, Punjabi, Russian and Korean.

Copa de Oro

The Copa de Oro (English: Gold Cup, Portuguese: Copa Ouro), or Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz, was a football cup winners' cup competition contested on 3 occasions by the most recent winners of all Conmebol continental competitions.

Curumin

He sings in Portuguese and speaks fluent English.His first album, Achados E Perdidos, was released on September 20, 2005 on the Quannum Projects label.

Demographics of Suriname

Dutch (official), Sranan Tongo (Surinamese, sometimes called Taki-Taki, is native language of Creoles and much of the younger population), Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu), Javanese, English (widely spoken), French due to cultural influence from French Guiana, Portuguese and Spanish.

Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer

His books have been translated into many languages (English language, French language, Portuguese language, Dutch language and Polish language, among others).

Futebol Club Aliança Nacional

Futebol Club Aliança Nacional (Portuguese meaning the Football Club National Alliance) is a football club based in Pantufo in the São Tomé and Príncipe Championship.

Halobatrachus didactylus

Halobatrachus didactylus, the Lusitanian toadfish (Gripau (Catalan, Charroco, Encharroco, Xarroco (Portuguese), Pez sapo (Spanish)), is a species of toadfish found along the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of western Europe and western Africa.

Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas

The Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Clinics Hospital of the State University of Campinas, in Portuguese language) is a teaching hospital (Hospital das Clínicas) located in the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Hunsrückisch dialect

Throughout its almost 200-year history in Southern Brazil and Espírito Santo, Hunsrückisch has been greatly influenced by other German dialects such as Pomeranian, Swabian, and Austro-Bavarian, by other immigrant languages, and by Portuguese.

Linguatec

:The Voice Reader text-to-speech program reads in twelve languages: German, British English, American English, French, Quebec French, Spanish, Mexican Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Czech, Chinese.

Luís Romano de Madeira Melo

Luís Romano de Madeira Melo (Santo Antão, Cabo Verde, 10 June 1922 - Brasil, 22 January 2010) was a bilingual poet, novelist, and folklorist who has written in Portuguese and the Capeverdean Crioulo of Santo Antão.

MacArthur Study Bible

Initially only available in the New King James Version, the MacArthur Study Bible is now also published using the New American Standard Bible text and the English Standard Version text, and the New International Version text as well as in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Marathon Media Group

The shows are dubbed into French (1st official), Japanese (2nd official), English, Thai, German, Dutch, Malay, Arabic, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages dubbed and shown around the world.

Mata Leão

The words "mata leão" loosely translate into "lion killer" in Portuguese (also the name of a chokehold in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu).

Monte Grande, Cape Verde

Monte Grande (Portuguese meaning large mountain, Capeverdean Crioulo, ALUPEC or ALUPEK: Monti Grandi), is a village located approximately six kilometers east of the island capital of Sao Filipe and southwest of Mosteiros in the island of Fogo, Cape Verde.

Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Cape Verde

Nossa Senhora do Livramento (first part, Portuguese meaning Our Lady) is a parish that covers a part of the municipality of Ribeira Grande in the island of Santo Antão in southern Cape Verde.

Nova Roma do Sul

Nova Roma do Sul (a Portuguese name meaning New Rome of the South) is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

O Heraldo

O Heraldo was established as the first Portuguese newspaper on 22 January 1900 by Prof. Messias Gomes and Luís de Menezes Bragança in Goa.

O Natal do Menino Imperador

O Natal do Menino Imperador (The Little Emperor's Christmas) is a 2008 Portuguese language television film for children from Brazil, by Rede Globo.

Physalis viscosa

Physalis viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the nightshade family known by many common names, including starhair groundcherry and grape groundcherry in English, and arrebenta-cavalo, balãozinho, and camambú in Portuguese.

Ramendra Kumar

Ramen's work has been published and reviewed in major newspapers and magazines and translated into several Indian languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Sinhala, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Ricky López

At Menudo, López recorded two CDs: "Imagínate" -translation "Imagine That!"-, which was done in Spanish, and "Vem Pra Mim", which was released in Portuguese specifically for the band's Brazilian fan base.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Galle

However, right back into the time of Blessed Joseph Vaz and his Oratorian disciples and still earlier in Portuguese times (mid 16th Century) stations in its coastal fringe as well as in its Ratnapura reaches are on record for Evangelization and advanced pastoral structure.

São Filipe, Cape Verde

São Filipe (Portuguese for "Saint Philip"), or San Filipi in Cape Verdean Creole, is the city that constitutes the seat of the São Filipe Municipality on the isle of Fogo, in Cape Verde.

São João da Fronteira

Fronteiras (Portuguese meaning Saint John of the frontier) is a municipality in the western part of the state of Piauí in Brazil.

São José do Barreiro

São José do Barreiro (São José in Portuguese means Saint Joseph) is a municipality/county in the microrregion of Bananal in the eastern part of the state of São Paulo in Brazil bordering with state of Rio de Janeiro to the north and south.

Saudades de Rock

Saudades de Rock (which roughly translates from Portuguese as "Nostalgic Yearnings of Rock") is Extreme's fifth studio album, released on August 12, 2008.

Taro Revolt

The taro (Colocasia esculenta), referred to in the Azores as inhames or coco in Portuguese, is cultivated in many islands of the archipelago.

The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions

It is a collection of David Bowie songs (plus one original, "Team Zissou") Jorge recorded in Portuguese for the soundtrack to the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

Ts'ao Yung-ho

Ts'ao has studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he can now make use of ten languages: Taiwanese, Japanese, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.

Vila do Maio

The city is still (colloquially) known by its old name, Porto Inglês (Portuguese for "English port" in which was founded, Cape Verdean Creole: Port’ Inglês), in opposition of the older Porto Português (present day Calheta).

World Go Round

The video features both Busta Rhymes and Estelle in various backgrounds surrounded by Japanese, Russian, and Portuguese lettering.