janela

janela f (plural janelas, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xanela

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

From Portuguese janela.

janéla

1. window

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐˈnɛ.la/
• Hyphenation: ja‧ne‧la

From Old Galician-Portuguese janella, from Vulgar Latin *iānuella, diminutive of Latin iānua (“door”). Compare Galician xanela, Mirandese jinela. Related to Mozarabic יאנה (yʔnh).

• jinela (regional)

janela f (plural janelas)

1. window

   Começou a chover! Fecha as janelas!

   It started raining! Shut the windows!

   • 1899, Machado de Assis, chapter 32, in Dom Casmurro‎^[1], Obliqpress, published 2013:

     Fui devagar, mas o pé ou o espelho traiu-me. Este pode ser que não fosse; era um espelhinho de pataca (perdoai a barateza), comprado a um mascate italiano, moldura tosca, argolinha de latão, pendente da parede, entre as duas janelas.

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   • 1902, Fernando Pessoa, Quando ela passa:

     Quando eu me sento à janela / P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça / Vejo a doce imagem d'ela / Quando passa… passa… passa…

     When I sit at the window / I see through the panes clouded by snow / The sweet image of her / When (she) passes… passes… passes…

• → Bengali: জানালা (janala), জানলা (janla)
• → Guinea-Bissau Creole: djanela
• → Indo-Portuguese: jinel
• → Hindustani:
  • → Hindi: जंगला (jaṅglā)
  • → Urdu: جنگلا (jaṅglā)
• → Kabuverdianu: janéla, jinéla
• → Kaingang: janẽra
• Karipúna Creole French: janél
• → Konkani: जनेल (j̈anel)
• → Korlai Creole Portuguese: janɛl
• → Macanese: jinela
• → Kristang: janela
• → Malay: jendela, جنديلا
  • → Indonesian: jendela
  • → Kimaragang: jondila
  • → Rungus: gondila
• → Malayalam: ജനാല (janāla), ജനൽ (janal), ജന്നൽ (jannal), ജനയൽ (janayal)
• → Principense: jinela
• Sãotomense: zanela
• → Sinhalese: ජනේලය (janēlaya)
• → Tamil: ஜன்னல் (jaṉṉal)
• → Tetum: janela

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

janela

1. inflection of janelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “janela”, in Dicio – Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
• “janela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

Borrowed from Portuguese janela (“window”), from Vulgar Latin *januella (“window”), diminutive of the word jānua, alternative spelling of Latin iānua (“door”).

janela

1. window

   Livru sira hanesan janela nakloke ba mundu.

   Books are open windows to the world.

From Portuguese janela.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.ˈn̪e.l̪a/

janela

1. window

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics