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The Portuguese word for skin is
pele





skin

Gender

The gender of pele is feminine. E.g. a pele.

Portuguese Definition


skin
     1. Substantivo. pele
     2. Substantivo. (Brasil) (informática) capa



Translations for skin and their definitions

papel de arroz
     1. n-m. rice paper (thin paper made from rice straw)


pele
     1. n-f. skin
     2. n-f. fur
     3. v. verb form of pelar


skinhead
     1. n. skinhead (member of a punk subculture characterised by the use of a shaved head)


película
     1. n-f. film (thin layer of some substance)
     2. n-f. film, movie


esfolar
     1. v. to flay
     2. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun) to scrape (to injure by scraping)


capa
     1. n-f. cloak; cape (long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back)
     2. n-f. (printing) cover (front and back of a book or magazine)
     3. n-f. the front cover or front page of a publication
     4. n-f. jacket (protective or insulating cover for an object)
     5. n-f. (bullfighting) cape (cloth used by a bullfighter to trick the bull)
     6. n-f. (figurative) cloak (a false pretext or appearance)
     7. n-f. (geology) a top layer of rock
     8. n-f. wrapper (outer layer of a cigar)
     9. n-f. (colloquial) condom
     10. n-m. (Portugal) kay (name of the Latin letter K, k)
     11. n-m. kappa (name of the Greek letter Κ, κ)
     12. v. verb form of capar


raspar
     1. v. to scrape (draw a sharp object along a surface)
     2. v. to scrape off (remove something by scraping)
     3. v. to graze (touch lightly in passing)


skin
     1. n-f. (computing) skin (image used as the background of a graphical user interface)
     2. n-f. (video games) skin (alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a 3D character model in a video game)


descascar
     1. v. to peel (to remove skin of a fruit or tree)


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