espinafre

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Arabic إِسْفَانَاخ (ʔisfānāḵ), from Persian (espanâx). Compare Spanish espinaca.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /is.piˈna.fɾi/, /es.piˈna.fɾi/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /iʃ.piˈna.fɾi/, /eʃ.piˈna.fɾi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /es.piˈna.fɾe/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /(i)ʃ.piˈna.fɾɨ/

Hyphenation: es‧pi‧na‧fre

Noun

espinafre m (plural espinafres)

spinach

Etymology 2

Verb

espinafre

inflection of espinafrar:
1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
2. third-person singular imperative

Further reading

“espinafre”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“espinafre”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026