papagaio

From Old Galician-Portuguese papagay (“parrot”) (c. 1300, Dom Dinis), from Old Occitan papagay (“parrot”), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.

• IPA^(key): [papaˈɣajʊ]

papagaio m (plural papagaios)

1. parrot

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022), “papagai”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018), “papagai”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “papagaio”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese papagay (“parrot”), from Old Occitan papagay (“parrot”), ultimately from Arabic بَبْغَاء (babḡāʔ, “parrot”), of imitative origin.

• Rhymes: -aju
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa‧gai‧o

papagaio m (plural papagaios, feminine papagaia, feminine plural papagaias)

1. parrot (bird)
2. parroter
3. kite (flying toy on a string)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pipa

4. bedpan (for male urination)

• papaguear

• “papagaio”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025