quenga
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Kimbundu kienga (“pot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ẽɡɐ
- Hyphenation: quen‧ga
Noun
[edit]quenga f (plural quengas)
- (Brazil) a container made with half of a coconut shell
- (Angola, Brazil, derogatory) prostitute; immoral woman
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
- (Brazil) chicken stew with okra
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “quenga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- “quenga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Kimbundu
- Portuguese terms derived from Kimbundu
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽɡɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ẽɡɐ/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Angolan Portuguese
- Portuguese derogatory terms