pelado
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈla.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /peˈla.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /pɨˈla.du/ [pɨˈla.ðu]
- Hyphenation: pe‧la‧do
Participle
pelado (feminine pelada, masculine plural pelados, feminine plural peladas)
- past participle of pelar
Adjective
pelado (feminine pelada, masculine plural pelados, feminine plural peladas)
- skinned
- (Brazil, colloquial) naked (not wearing any clothes)
- Synonym: nu
Related terms
- pelar
Spanish
Etymology
From the past participle of pelar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈlado/ [peˈla.ð̞o]
- Rhymes: -ado
- Syllabification: pe‧la‧do
Adjective
pelado (feminine pelada, masculine plural pelados, feminine plural peladas)
- peeled, skinned, shelled (having the outer layer e.g. peel, skin, husk etc. removed)
- treeless, bare (with no or little vegetation)
- hairless
- Synonym: lampiño
- bald
- Synonyms: calvo, pelón
- (figuratively) broke, pennyless (without money)
- (figuratively) uncultivated, uncivilized
- (by extension, Mexico) obscene, filthy
- Synonyms: grosero, obsceno
- (Chile) naked, nude
- (Chile) promiscuous
Derived terms
- a grito pelado
- rabo pelado
Noun
pelado m (plural pelados, feminine pelada, feminine plural peladas)
- baldie
- Synonym: pelón
- Antonym: peludo
Participle
pelado (feminine pelada, masculine plural pelados, feminine plural peladas)
- past participle of pelar
Further reading
- “pelado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014