jangada

English

Etymology

From Portuguese jangada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʒəŋˈɡɑdə/, /d͡ʒəŋˈɡɑdə/

Noun

jangada (plural jangadas)

1. A traditional wooden sailing raft of northern Brazil.
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 143:

     We went out into the bay on Paulo's jangada and I dived into the clear water and struck off some distance, then floated and looked back at the handsome boat.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jangada, from Malayalam ചങ്ങാടം (caṅṅāṭaṁ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəŋˈɡa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒaŋˈɡa.ða]

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Noun

jangada f (plural jangades)

1. an improvised raft made from the wreckage of a sailing ship
2. jangada

Hypernyms

• rai

Further reading

• “jangada” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Noun

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. jangada

Further reading

• “jangada”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Malayalam ചങ്ങാടം (caṅṅāṭaṁ), from Sanskrit संघाट (saṃghāṭa).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈɡa.dɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈɡa.dɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈɡa.da/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ̃ˈɡa.dɐ/ [ʒɐ̃ˈɡa.ðɐ]

• Hyphenation: jan‧ga‧da

Noun

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. raft (flat makeshift watercraft)

   Synonym: balsa

Derived terms

• jangada-brava
• jangada-do-campo
• jangadear
• jangadeira
• jangadeiro
• pau-de-jangada

Descendants

• → Catalan: jangada
• → English: jangada
• → Spanish: jangada

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jangada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xanˈɡada/ [xãŋˈɡa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: jan‧ga‧da

Noun

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. a kind of sailing raft found in northern Brazil

Further reading

• “jangada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10