marafona

Portuguese

A Monsanto marafona

Alternative forms

• matrafona

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْأَة هَيْنَة (marʔa hayna, literally “deceiving woman”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.ɾaˈfõ.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.ɾaˈfõ.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ma.ɾaˈfo.na/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐ.ɾɐˈfo.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: ma‧ra‧fo‧na

Noun

marafona f (plural marafonas)

1. rag doll
2. (by extension) ugly woman
3. man dressed in woman’s clothing during Carnival
4. prostitute

Further reading

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