gambá
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[edit]Etymology
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Unknown. Many dictionaries cite a supposedly Old Tupi word gãbá, meaning “hollow belly”, but give no source.[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: gam‧bá
Noun
[edit]gambá m or f (plural gambás)
- opossum (any species in the family Didelphidae)
- (Brazil) skunk (any species in the family Mephitidae)
- Synonyms: cangambá, doninha-fedorenta
- (Brazil, figurative) drunkard
- (Brazil, figurative, soccer, derogatory) a player or supporter of Corinthians football team
- (South Brazil, figurative) a stinky person, stinker
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]gambá m (plural gambás)
- a kind of drum consisting of a hollow log covered at one end
- a kind of dance whose music uses this drum
Noun
[edit]gambá f (plural gambás)
- (Piauí, collective, usually derogatory) rabble (mass of common people)
- Synonym: ralé
Adjective
[edit]gambá m or f (plural gambás)
References
[edit]- ^ “gambá”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- ^ “gambá”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “gambá”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
Further reading
[edit]- gambá on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- “gambá”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
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- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Portuguese nouns with multiple genders
- Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Football (soccer)
- Portuguese derogatory terms
- Southern Brazilian Portuguese
- Piauiense Portuguese
- Portuguese collective nouns
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese slang
- pt:Dance
- pt:Drinking
- pt:Marsupials
- pt:Musical instruments
- pt:Mustelids
- pt:Mephitids