orelha

orelha f (plural orelhas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of orella

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

• orella

Inherited from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula.

orelha f (plural orelhas)

1. ear

• Galician: orella
• Portuguese: orelha (see there for further descendants)

• Universo Cantigas - "orelha"

• ourelha (dialectal)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese orelha, from Latin ōricula, variant of auricula. Cognate Galician orella, Spanish oreja. Doublet of aurícula

• Rhymes: -eʎɐ
• Hyphenation: o‧re‧lha

orelha f (plural orelhas)

1. (anatomy) ear
2. bookflap
3. (Brazil, informal) dog-ear
4. the claw of a claw hammer

   Synonyms: unha, garra

Colloquially, orelha refers exclusively to the auricle, while ouvido is the earhole, but the terms can be interchangeable in some cases.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:orelha.

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: oredja
• Kabuverdianu: oredja, orédja
• Papiamentu: orea

• ouvido

• “orelha” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “orelha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “orelha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024