balaço
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /baˈla.su/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /baˈla.so/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /bɐˈla.su/
- Hyphenation: ba‧la‧ço
Noun
balaço m (plural balaços)
- augmentative of bala; a big bullet
- a shot with a bullet
- (sports) a precise and strong kick in association football and similar sports
- (fiction) bludger, a fictional ball in Quidditch, a wizarding sport in the Harry Potter universe
Further reading
- “balaço”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “balaço”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026