baleia

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Noun

1. (feminine) whale (any of several species of large sea mammals of the order Cetacea, excluding smaller ones)
2. (colloquial,derogatory,feminine) landwhale (an obese person)

Verb

1. (form-of,indicative,present,singular,third-person) inflection of balear:
2. (form-of,imperative,second-person,singular) inflection of balear:

Mit Bindestrich als

ba‧lei‧a

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/baˈlej.ɐ/

Etymologie (Englisch)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese balẽa, from Latin ballaena, variant of bālaena, from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to inflate, blow, swell”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).