What do you think these tattoos say?

[BilliBean]

Just curious...

Colagem

coragem

coragem

At first glance colagen, now cosagem..?

collagen

Coragem

colagem

Coragern

coragem

That 3rd letter is an 'r' in properly formed cursive script.

And Google tells me it's Portuguese for 'courage'.

Yes, I googled too.

I posted as I was confused as the artist posted it with the caption 'courage' without any reference to Portuguese and I just couldn't see how it said Courage.

Mystery solved!

Colagen

Colagem

Cosagem?

Coragem. Wondered if it was a blend of two names - Cora and Gemma!

Colagen? Is that something to do with enhancers?

Cosagem

Coragem
that’s lovely now I know the meaning

I'd have said cottager, but spelled a but oddly.

It very clearly says coragem - I’m not sure how anyone sees it as anything different.

I think, if this were a Portuguese language site, it would be obvious; but to most English speakers who are not familiar with Portuguese - especially if they see somebody in an English-speaking country with the tattoo - they would go from their own frame of reference.

It's probably just me, but I don't like arty, flowy, potentially ambiguous fonts - good clear block printing for me every time!

Im not a fan of tattoo quotes.
But if you like who cares.

Coragem

Yes, I agree. But it was posted as 'courage' without any references to Portuguese so I was confused!

I didn’t mean that the meaning of the word was obvious - I didn’t realise it was a word in a foreign language and assumed it was someone’s name. I meant that I couldn’t understand how some people were reading the letter R as an L when it’s just the traditional style of writing that people were always taught to use in the past.