senhora

See also: Senhora

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • sinhá (Brazil Caipira eye-dialect)

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese senhor.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /sẽˈɲɔ.ɾɐ/ [sẽˈj̃ɔ.ɾɐ], /sĩˈɲɔ.ɾɐ/ [sĩˈj̃ɔ.ɾɐ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /seˈɲɔ.ɾa/, /siˈɲɔ.ɾa/

  • Hyphenation: se‧nho‧ra

Noun

senhora f (plural senhoras)

  1. lady
  2. mistress

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:senhora.

Descendants

  • Kabuverdianu: Nha

Etymology 2

From senhora in the sense of mistress, a title which gives importance to women and signals their social status; from there it was applied to feminine nouns to achieve a similar effect with them.

Adjective

senhora

  1. (informal, dated, prepositive) feminine of senhor (“great; big; fine; remarkable”) (used to highlight or intensify the quality, size or value of things)
    Synonyms: ótima, excelente, maravilhosa
    Aquela senhora casa será a que teremos um dia, querida!
    Yon great big house [literally “mistress house”] will be the one we'll have one day, darling!
    Uma senhora árvore, de fato! Pena que foi derrubada.
    A remarkably big and beautiful tree, indeed! So sad it's been felled.
    Eram umas senhoras formigas que avistei em meu jardim.
    'Twas some big ol' ants that I sighted on my garden.
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