galinha

galinha f (plural galinhas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of galiña

• “galinha” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Inherited from Portuguese galinha, from Old Galician-Portuguese galinha, from Latin gallīna.

galinha

1. hen
2. chicken

• galỹa, galinna

Inherited from Latin gallīna (“hen”), from gallus (“rooster”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ˈli.ɲa/, /ɡa.ˈlĩ.j̃a/

galinha f (plural galinhas)

1. hen
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 308 (facsimile):

     a outra […] foi com ouo de galỹa

     the other […] had the size of a hen’s egg

• Galician: galiña
• Portuguese: galinha (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "galinha"

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese galinha (“hen”), from Latin gallīna (“hen”), from gallus (“rooster”). By surface analysis, galo +‎ -inha.

Compare Galician galiña.

• Rhymes: -iɲɐ
• Hyphenation: ga‧li‧nha

galinha f (plural galinhas)

1. hen
2. chicken (meat)

   Synonym: frango

3. (Brazil, slang, derogatory) a person (especially a woman) who is almost never single

• Kabuverdianu: galinha
• Papiamentu: galiña

galinha m or f (plural galinhas)

1. (Brazil) who is virtually always seen with a partner

• “galinha”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), São Paulo: 7Graus, 2009–2025
• “galinha”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025