fanfarrão
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Spanish fanfarrón, from Arabic فَرْفَار (farfār).[1] Cognate with French fanfaron, Italian fanfarone.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: fan‧fa‧rrão
Adjective[edit]
fanfarrão (feminine fanfarrona, masculine plural fanfarrões, feminine plural fanfarronas)
Noun[edit]
fanfarrão m (plural fanfarrões, feminine fanfarrona, feminine plural fanfarronas)
- braggart (one who boasts)
- Synonyms: paparrotão, bazofiador, gabarola, gabola
References[edit]
- ^ “fanfarrão” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.