bagunça
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Thought to be of onomatopoeic origin. Possibly from bag + pejorative -unça.[1] Compare Sicilian baconca.
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese into European Portuguese.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: ba‧gun‧ça
Noun
[edit]bagunça f (plural bagunças)
- (informal) mess, disorder
- 2010 September 10, Pedro Araújo Pina, “"Isto é tudo uma bagunça" [“This is all a mess”]”, in Observador[1], retrieved 2024-07-22:
- "Podia chamar um rancho folclórico, mas assim poderia estar a ofender os ranchos folclóricos. Acho que é mais rebaldaria ou bagunça (...)"
- “I could call it a folkloric ranch, but then I could be offending the folkloric ranches. I think it's more of a pandemonium or a mess (...)”
- 2021 December 15, Rui Santos, “A grande bagunça [The big mess]”, in CNN Portugal[2], retrieved 2024-07-22:
- A bagunça é total e isto só lá vai quando, por via de lei, os clubes deixarem de ser os (não) “reguladores” de si próprios.
- It's a total mess and it won't stop being one until, by law, the clubs stop being the (non-)“regulators” of themselves.
- 2024 February 21, Agência Lusa, “Pedro Nuno Santos: “A direita é a bagunça que teria consequências em Portugal se por acaso eles tivessem a vitória” [Pedro Nuno Santos: “The right is the mess that would have consequences in Portugal if they happened to win”]”, in Observador[3], retrieved 2024-07-22:
- (informal) clutter
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit]bagunça
- inflection of bagunçar:
References
[edit]- ^ 'A origem e o significado de bagunça' in Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa.
Further reading
[edit]- “bagunça”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “bagunça”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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