alfarrábio
Appearance
See also: alfarrabio
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- alfarrabio (pre-reform spelling)
Etymology
[edit]Named after Turkestani philosopher الـفارابی (al-Fārābī) (c. 872–c. 951).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.faˈʁa.bi.u/ [aʊ̯.faˈha.bɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aw.faˈʁa.bju/ [aʊ̯.faˈha.bju]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /aw.faˈʁa.bi.u/ [aʊ̯.faˈχa.bɪ.u], (faster pronunciation) /aw.faˈʁa.bju/ [aʊ̯.faˈχa.bju]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /aw.faˈʁa.bi.o/ [aʊ̯.faˈha.bɪ.o], (faster pronunciation) /aw.faˈʁa.bjo/ [aʊ̯.faˈha.bjo]
Noun
[edit]alfarrábio m (plural alfarrábios)
- a large and old book
- 2002, Frederico Ozanam Pessoa de Barros (translator), Os miseráveis, Casa da Palavra, translated from the original (1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, A. Lacroix), page 118:
- Quando às vezes lhe acontecia dizer, coisa que todos nós já fizemos: — Oh! se eu fosse rico! — não era jamais ao ver uma bela rapariga, como costumava fazer o avô Gillenormand, mas ao contemplar um alfarrábio.
- When it sometimes happened to him to say, something we have all done: — Oh! if I were rich! — it wasn’t ever when seeing a beautiful girl, as grandfather Gillenormand used to, but when contemplating an old tome.
- 2002, Frederico Ozanam Pessoa de Barros (translator), Os miseráveis, Casa da Palavra, translated from the original (1862, Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, A. Lacroix), page 118:
Derived terms
[edit]Categories:
- Portuguese eponyms
- Portuguese 5-syllable words
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/abiu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/abiu/5 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/abju
- Rhymes:Portuguese/abju/5 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- pt:Books