The Portuguese word for skin is
pele
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
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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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