tambâ
Appearance
Macanese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- tambar (modern hypercorrection)
Etymology
[edit]Possibly Indonesian tambal (“to patch”) + -â.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]tambâ
- to patch, to repair
- tambâ calça ― to patch up trousers
- to cover, to fill in
- tambâ buraco di rua ― to fill in the hole in the street
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tambar”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 540