The Portuguese word for neck is
pescoço
Gender
The gender of pescoço is masculine. E.g. o pescoço.Plural
The plural of pescoço is pescoços.Portuguese Definition
| neck | |
| 1. Substantivo. pescoço |
Translations for neck and their definitions
| pescoço | |
| 1. n-m. neck (part of body) |
| braço | |
| 1. n-m. arm (upper limb) | |
| 2. n-m. (specifically) upper arm; brachium (part of the arm between the elbow and shoulder) | |
| 3. n-m. (loosely) any limb or tentacle | |
| 4. n-m. arm (part of an object designed to be used with the arm) | |
| 5. n-m. arm; sleeve (part of an item of clothing for the upper body that goes around the arm) | |
| 6. n-m. arm (part of a furniture for sitting that one can rest one’s arm on) | |
| 7. n-m. arm (anything that extends out from another thing) | |
| 8. n-m. (musical instruments) neck (extended part of a stringed instrument) | |
| 9. n-m. (geography) arm; inlet (small part of a body of water extending out from the main body) | |
| 10. n-m. (geography) a smaller range extending from a mountain range | |
| 11. n-m. (mechanics) the part of a lever on either side of the fulcrum | |
| 12. n-m. (genetics) arm (part of a chromosome extending from the centromere) | |
| 13. n-m. (astronomy) arm (outer part of a spiral galaxy) | |
| 14. n-m. arm (person employed to do manual labour) | |
| 15. n-m. (figurative) arm; might; power |
| esganar | |
| 1. v. to strangle (to squeeze someone’s throat) |
| gola | |
| 1. n-f. collar | |
| 2. n-f. cornice |
| gargalo | |
| 1. n-m. bottleneck | |
| 2. n-m. throat (of a bottle etc) |
| estrangular | |
| 1. v. to strangle |
| enforcar | |
| 1. v. to suspend (someone) by a rope or band tied around the neck, causing death by asphyxiation | |
| 2. v. to put someone to death on the gallows | |
| 3. v. to sell something for a low price | |
| 4. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to kill yourself by hanging | |
| 5. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, figuratively) to get in bad shape | |
| 6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, figuratively) to suffer great damage | |
| 7. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, figuratively) to sacrifice yourself | |
| 8. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, colloquial) to get married | |
| 9. v. to not work on a business day between holidays or between a holiday and a weekend |
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