filhó

Portuguese

filhós

Alternative forms

• filhós

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese folloa, from Vulgar Latin *foliola, diminutive of Latin folium. Compare Galician filloa, Spanish hojuela.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fiˈʎɔ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fiˈʎɔ/

• Rhymes: -ɔ
• Hyphenation: fi‧lhó

Noun

filhó f (plural filhós)

1. (cooking) a traditional christmas treat prepared with eggs and flour, fried in olive oil; beignet, fritter

   Synonyms: fritos, sonho

Descendants

• → Japanese: 飛竜頭 (hiryūzu, hiryōzu, hirōsu)

Further reading

• filhó on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “filhó”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “filhó”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025