Portuguese | English |
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beira noun {f} | brink [brinks](edge) coast [coasts](edge of land meeting ocean, sea, gulf, bay) verge [verges](edge or border) |
beira-mar noun | waterfront(land alongside a body of water) |
beira-mar noun {m} | seashore [seashores](the coastal land bordering a sea or ocean) |
beira-rio noun | waterfront(land alongside a body of water) |
beirada noun {f} | verge [verges](edge or border) |
beirado noun {m} | eaves [eaves](underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building) |
beiral noun {m} | eaves [eaves](underside of a roof that extends beyond the external walls of a building) |
beirar verb | border on(be almost like some other thing) skirt [skirted, skirting, skirts](to be on or from the border of) verge [verged, verging, verges](to come very close) |
alfarrobeira noun {f} | carob [carobs](tree) |
algibeira noun {f} | pocket [pockets](bag stitched to an item of clothing) |
andorinha-dos-beirais noun {f} | common house martin(Delichon urbicum) |
bobeira noun {f} | folly [follies](foolishness) malarkey [malarkeys](nonsense; rubbish, see also: nonsense) |
bombeira noun {f} | firefighter [firefighters](person who puts out fires) firewoman(female firefighter) |
goiabeira noun {f} | guava [guavas](tree or shrub) |
hotel de beira de estrada noun {m} | motel [motels](type of hotel) |
jujubeira noun {f} | jujube [jujubes](Ziziphus jujuba tree) |
perder as estribeiras verb | go ballistic(become very angry) lose it(to lose one's temper) lose one's temper(to be explosively angry) |
sanguinho-das-ribeiras noun {m} | alder buckthorn [alder buckthorns]noun |
à beira de preposition | on the brink of(very near to) on the edge(with figurative proximity to) |
à beira de adverb | alongside(along the side; by the side; side by side; abreast, see also: side by side; abreast) |