pássaro

Meaning

1. (masculine) passerine (any bird of the order Passeriformes)
2. (colloquial, masculine, proscribed) bird (any member of the class Aves, especially a small one)

Concepts

bird

🐦

sparrow

fowl

creeper

dunnock

fearfully

kinglet

manakin

game bird

hedge sparrow

night bird

antbird

Prunella modularis

chatterer

cock

Synonyms

ave

🐦

pardal

árvore

🌳

aves

Translations

oiseau

🐦

vogel

🐦

Vogel

🐦

uccello

🐦

pájaro

🐦

ocell

🐦

ave

🐦

kuş

🐦

avis

🐦

πουλί

πτηνό

au

طير

aucèl

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpa.sa.ɾu/

Etymology

Inherited from Latin: passer

Cognate with English: passerine

Cognate with Spanish: pájaro

Cognate with Romanian: pasăre

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese passaro, from Vulgar Latin *passarum, from Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *p(e)t-tro- (“who flies, bird”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”). Compare English passerine, Spanish pájaro, Dalmatian paserain, Romanian pasăre.

Sentences

Pássaro com ninho , fácil de encontrar .

Bird with nest, easy to find.

O advogado entre os advogados parece um pássaro entre gatos .

The lawyer among lawyers looks like a bird among cats.

O pássaro velho não entra na gaiola .

The old bird does not enter the cage.

Um jovem empresário andando na rua , enquanto um pássaro preto voa na frente dele .

A young businessman walks down the street, while a black bird flies in front of him.

Estava tudo bem ; ele ligaria assim que um pássaro fosse enterrado .

It was all right; he would call as soon as a bird was buried.