tourão

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• toirão

Etymology

From touro +‎ -ão (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /to(w)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/ [to(ʊ̯)ˈɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /to(w)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /to(w)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /towˈɾɐ̃w̃/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /toˈɾɐ̃w̃/

• Hyphenation: tou‧rão

Noun

tourão m (plural tourões)

1. Augmentative of touro
2. polecat (Mustela putorius, a mustelid of Eurasia)

Descendants

• Spanish: turón

Further reading

• “tourão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913