Forró

A few weeks ago we heard Luiz Gonzaga in our music segment performing O Fole Roncou, an example of forró. I found a great picture (on Wikipedia) taken in Caruaru, in the state of Pernambuco, capturing the three essential elements of Forró.

Aqui é o trio típico de forró pé-de-serra:.

Instrumento (Portuguese)	Instrument (English)
Zabumba	Drum
Sanfona	Accordion
Triângulo	Triangle

The accordion is known as a gaita in the southern part of the country. Other names for it are concertina, harmônia, harmônica, fole (ou gaita-de-foles) and realejo (as explained in this article).

Mais frutas

Beyond the lists Jerry provided below, some more unusual fruits can be found on Flickr.

One traveler shows a Brazilian juice stand displaying maracujá, abacate, melão, mamão, and more. See which ones you can identify.

Two of these three more exotic fruits don't really have a good English translation (at least that I'm aware of).

Aves

Ave is Portuguese for bird. You might also hear pássaro or passarinho for a smaller song bird.

A recent conversation with Jerry got me thinking about the words for different birds in Portuguese.

I found a great webpage listing the Portuguese names for very specific species of birds. That's great if you're a birder, but if you talk about birds more casually, you probably don't need to be quite so specific.

In that vein, I've gone through and picked out the birds that I've actually heard Brazilians refer to. Well, I threw in a few others that I couldn't resist. The Portuguese for "puffin" was too cute to pass up.

First, just because you have to see it, I bring to your attention the mutum pinima,

a Brazilian bird which is nearly extinct.

So here we go with the less exotic birds.

English	Portuguese
Blackbird	Graúna
Booby	Atobá
Chicken	Galinha
Crane	Grou
Duck	Pato, Marreco
Eagle	Águia
Falcon	Falcão
Goose	Ganso
Gull	Gaivota
Heron	Garça
Hummingbird	Beija-flor
Owl	Coruja
Parrot	Papagaio
Penguin	Pinguim
Pigeon	Pombo
Puffin	Papagaio do mar
Stork	Cegonha
Stork (black brazilian variety)	Jabiru
Toucan	Tucano
Turkey	Peru
Vulture	Urubú
Woodpecker	Pica-pau