baleia

Meaning

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:

Hyphenated as

ba‧lei‧a

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baˈlej.ɐ/

Etymology

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”).