A bus carrying journalists was attacked in Rio as it passed near the "City of God" favela.
Source: tatoeba (5331981)
Favela
//fəˈvɛlə//
Synonyms for "favela" (3 found)
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15 translations across 15 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- فَافِيلَا noun (A slum in Brazil)
French
1 entries- favela noun (A slum in Brazil)
Georgian
1 entries- ფაველა noun (A slum in Brazil)
German
1 entries- Favela noun (A slum in Brazil)
Greek
1 entries- φαβέλα noun (A slum in Brazil)
Hebrew
1 entries- פָֿאבֶ֫לָה noun (A slum in Brazil)
Italian
1 entries- favela noun (A slum in Brazil)
Japanese
1 entries- ファヴェーラ noun (A slum in Brazil)
Korean
1 entries- 파벨라 noun (A slum in Brazil)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- favela noun (A slum in Brazil)
Portuguese
1 entries- favela noun (A slum in Brazil)
Romanian
1 entries- favelă noun (A slum in Brazil)
Russian
1 entries- фаве́ла noun (A slum in Brazil)
Spanish
1 entries- favela noun (A slum in Brazil)
Ukrainian
1 entries- фаве́ла noun (A slum in Brazil)
Sample sentences
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Football can be the ticket out of the grinding poverty of neighborhoods like Tavares Bastos, a poor community built on a hill overlooking Rio de Janeiro’s famous Flamengo beach. Jogo Bonito, as the game is often called, is part of life for residents of this favela, where most people work for minimum wage or in the informal economy.
Source: tatoeba (12203765)
The favela is now the model for most of the world's cities, as vast numbers of people continue to migrate to them in order to survive.
Source: wiktionary
security forces in November of 2010 stormed one of the city's most notorious favelas, the complex of the Morro do Alemão in the northern zone of the city
Source: wiktionary
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