gabiru
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi gûabiru.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: ga‧bi‧ru
Noun
[edit]gabiru m (plural gabirus)
- (Brazil, colloquial) scamp, rascal
- (Northeast Brazil) Synonym of rato-preto
- Alternative form: guabiru
Further reading
[edit]- “gabiru”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “gabiru”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- Northeastern Brazilian Portuguese