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Type Country
Usage Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, Galician, Catalan, German, Dutch, Luxembourgish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Estonian, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, Indonesian, Malay
Scripts Португал(Serbian)
Pronounced Pron. poor-too-GAL(European Portuguese) por-too-GOW(Brazilian Portuguese) PAWRCH-ə-gəl(American English) PAWCH-ə-gəl(British English) PAWR-TUY-GAL(French) por-too-GAL(Spanish) POW-too-gal(German) pawr-TOO-gal(Indonesian)
Meaning & History
From Portugale, which was derived from Portus Cale, the old name of the city of Porto. The name of the city was later applied to the entire country.