milha

Meaning

Noun

1. (feminine,historical) milha, Portuguese mile, a traditional unit of distance equivalent to about 1481.5, 1851.9, or 2057.6 m depending on the number of equatorial degrees per league
2. (feminine) English or American mile, a unit of distance equivalent to about 1.61 km

Verb

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

Hyphenated as

mi‧lha

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmi.ʎɐ/

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese milha, from Latin mīlia, plural of mīlle (“thousand”) from its length of 1000 Roman paces, from Proto-Indo-European *(sm̥-)ǵʰéslo-. Cognate with Galician, Spanish, and Catalan milla.