janela

janela f (plural janelas)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xanela

• “janela” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

From Portuguese janela.

janéla

1. window

• Gonçalves, Manuel (2015) Capeverdean Creole-English dictionary, →ISBN

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐˈnɛ.la/
• Hyphenation: ja‧ne‧la

janela

From Old Galician-Portuguese janella (“window”), from Vulgar Latin *iānuella, diminutive of Latin iānua (“door, double-doored entrance”), from Iānus (“Janus, Roman god of gates and doorways”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).

Cognate with Galician xanela and Mirandese jinela. Compare Mozarabic יאנא‎ (“y'n'”).

• jinela (regional)

janela f (plural janelas)

1. window
   • 1902, Fernando Pessoa, “Quando ela passa”:

     Quando eu me sento à janela / P'los vidros qu'a neve embaça / Vejo a doce imagem d'ela / Quando passa… passa… passa…

     When I sit at the window / I see through the panes clouded by snow / The sweet image of her / When (she) passes… passes… passes…

   Começou a chover! Fecha as janelas!

   It started raining! Shut the windows!

For quotations using this term, see Citations:janela.

• → Bengali: জানেলা (janela), জানালা (janala), জানলা (janola)
• Guinea-Bissau Creole: djanela
• Indo-Portuguese: jinel
• Kabuverdianu: janéla, jinéla
• Kaingang: janẽra
• Karipúna Creole French: janél
• → Konkani: जनेल (j̈anel)
• Korlai Creole Portuguese: janɛl
• Macanese: jinela
• Kristang: janela
• → Malay: jendela / جنديلا‎
  • Indonesian: jendela
  • Kimaragang: jondila
  • Rungus: gondila
• → Malayalam: ജനാല (janāla)
• Principense: jinela
• Sãotomense: zanela
• → Sinhalese: ජනේලය (janēlaya)
• → Tamil: ஜன்னல் (jaṉṉal)
• → Tetum: janela

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

janela

1. inflection of janelar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

For quotations using this term, see Citations:janelar.

• “janela” in Dicionário Online de Português.
• “janela” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.

Borrowed from Portuguese janela (“window”), from Vulgar Latin *januella (“window”), diminutive of the word jānua, alternative spelling of Latin iānua (“door”).

janela

1. window

   Livru sira hanesan janela nakloke ba mundu.

   Books are open windows to the world.

From Portuguese janela.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.ˈn̪e.l̪a/

janela

1. window

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics