tancarêra

Macanese

Alternative forms

• tancarera, tancaréra, tancareira

Etymology

tancá +‎ -êra. Intrusive -r- due to hypercorrected form tancar.

Noun

tancarêra

1. female equivalent of tancarêro: boatwoman

   Nhonha na jinela
   Cô fula mogarim,
   Sua mãe tancarera
   Seu pai canarim.

   Girl at the window
   With a jasmine flower,
   Her mother a boatwoman
   Her father a Goan.

Usage notes

• Appears to be more common than its masculine equivalent.

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_canarim
• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tancareira”, 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 542