The Portuguese word for child is
criança
Gender
The gender of criança is feminine. E.g. a criança.Plural
The plural of criança is crianças.Portuguese Definition
| child | |
| 1. Substantivo. * criança. |
Translations for child and their definitions
| criança | |
| 1. n-f. child (young person) |
| filho | |
| 1. n-m. son (male offspring) | |
| 2. n-m. child (offspring of any sex) | |
| 3. n-m. (informal) son (term of address for a younger male) | |
| 4. n-m. (somewhat, poetic) son; child (any descendant) | |
| 5. n-m. child (any person or thing heavily influenced by something else) | |
| 6. n-m. (graph theory) child (a node, of a tree, that has a parent node) |
| menino | |
| 1. n-m. boy (a young male) | |
| 2. n-m. child (a young person) | |
| 3. n-m. child (offspring) |
| menina | |
| 1. n-f. girl (female child) | |
| Doutor, é menino ou menina? (Doctor, is it a boy or a girl?) | |
| 2. n-f. young lady, miss (a title of respect for an unmarried young woman) | |
| Pode sentar-se aqui, menina. (You may sit here, miss.) | |
| 3. n-f. (pejorative) an effeminate boy | |
| 4. n-f. (Portugal, euphemistic, usually in plural) prostitute | |
| Ele tornou-se frequentador assíduo de casas de meninas. (He became a regular frequenter of houses of girls brothels.) |
| miúdo | |
| 1. adj. very small | |
| 2. n-m. (Portugal, Rio Grande do Sul) child | |
| 3. n-m. (usually in the plural) an internal organ used as offal | |
| 4. v. verb form of miudar |
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