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mauerar

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Adapted borrowing of Nheengatu maãwera (curious, nosy, meddlesome) +‎ -ar (verb-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: mau‧e‧rar

Verb

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mauerar (first-person singular present mauero, first-person singular preterite mauerei, past participle mauerado)

  1. (Amazonas) to fix one's gaze on someone else's belongings, usually food
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Conjugation

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References

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  • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “maãwera”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 435