hebreia

See also: hebréia

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• hebréia (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin hebraealbor.

Old Galician-Portuguese *ebrea

Portuguese hebreia

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese *ebrea, a learned borrowing from Latin hebraea.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /eˈbɾɛj.ɐ/ [eˈbɾɛɪ̯.ɐ]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbɾɐj.ɐ/ [iˈβɾɐj.ɐ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbɾɐj.ɐ/ [iˈβɾɐj.ɐ]
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbɾej.ɐ/ [iˈβɾej.ɐ]
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbɾej.ɐ/ [iˈβɾej.ɐ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /iˈbɾe.ɐ/

• Hyphenation: he‧brei‧a

Noun

hebreia f (plural hebreias)

1. female equivalent of hebreu

Adjective

hebreia

1. feminine singular of hebreu

Further reading

• “hebreia”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026