Similar Portuguese and English Words
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You can read in the blog section a post on English and Portuguese false friends, in which you learn how some words that look the same in these two languages have different meanings.
To complement that list, here’s another list with some English and Portuguese words that share the same origin and have the same meaning:
Portuguese - English
albatroz - albatross
albino - albino
banana - banana
bufalo - buffalo
caramel - caramel
flamingo - flamingo
marmelada - marmelade
piranha - piranha
samba - samba
varanda - veranda
zebra - zebra
