The Portuguese word for butcher is
talhante
Gender
The gender of talhante is masculine. E.g. o talhante.Portuguese Definition
| butcher | |
| 1. abater, talhar | |
| 2. talhante, açougueiro |
Translations for butcher and their definitions
| abater | |
| 1. v. to collapse | |
| 2. v. to topple | |
| 3. v. to slaughter | |
| 4. v. to abate, weaken | |
| 5. v. to reduce |
| talhante | |
| 1. n. (Portugal) butcher (a person who prepares and sells meat) | |
| 2. adj. able to chop |
| talhar | |
| 1. v. to cut; to slice to chop | |
| 2. v. to sharpen | |
| 3. v. to carve |
| açougueiro | |
| 1. n-m. butcher (a person who prepares and sells meat) |
| açougueira | |
| 1. n-f. female equivalent of açougueiro |
| trucidar | |
| 1. v. to slaughter; to butcher (kill brutally) | |
| 2. v. (informal, transitive) to destroy (defeat soundly) |
| carniceiro | |
| 1. n-m. an animal that feeds on carrion | |
| 2. n-m. butcher (person who prepares and sells meat) | |
| 3. n-m. (figurative) butcher (a brutal killer) | |
| 4. adj. (of animals) feeding on carrion | |
| 5. adj. (of people) brutal (viciously violent) |
| massacrar | |
| 1. v. to massacre |
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