cinza

Meaning

Adj

grey

Noun

ash, ashes

Noun

grey (colour)

Hyphenated as

cin‧za

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsĩ.zɐ/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese cĩisa (“ashes”), from a Vulgar Latin root *cinisia (“ashes (cold or warm)”), from Latin cinis (“cold ashes”), from Proto-Indo-European *ken- (“dust, ashes”).
Cognate with Galician cinza, Spanish ceniza and Romanian cenușă.

Sentences

Alegria , carnaval , amanhã é cinza .

Joy, carnival, tomorrow is gray.

Homem com uma camisa cinza tocando uma guitarra em uma rua da cidade .

Man in a gray shirt playing a guitar on a city street.

Um homem vestindo uma camisa cinza está cortando o cabelo .

A man wearing a gray shirt is cutting his hair.

Experimente essas pulseiras cinza com aqueles lenços creme e pastel .

Try these gray bracelets with those cream and pastel scarves.