chorão

Portuguese

Etymology

From chorar (“to cry”) +‎ -ão.

Pronunciation 1

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃoˈɾɐ̃w̃/ [ʃoˈɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃuˈɾɐ̃w̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʃuˈɾɐ̃w̃/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuˈɾɐ̃w̃/

• Homophone: Chorão
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃

Noun

chorão m (plural chorões, feminine chorona, feminine plural choronas)

1. crybaby (someone who cries readily)

   Synonym: choromingas

2. (music) a player of choro, a genre of Brazilian popular music
3. weeping willow, or any willow cultivar characterised by extreme pendulousness

   Synonym: salgueiro-chorão

4. (Brazil) Casuarina equisetifolia, a she-oak of Southeast Asia and Oceania

   Synonym: pinheiro-casuarina

5. cat's claw (Carpobrotus edulis, a small plant of South Africa)
6. red-spectacled amazon (Amazona pretrei, a parrot of southern South America)

   Synonyms: charão, papagaio-charão, papagaio-da-serra

7. white-bellied seedeater (Sporophila leucoptera, a bird of the Amazon forest)

   Synonym: patativa-chorona

8. variegated tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus, a bird of Brazil)

   Synonyms: chororão, inhambu-anhangá, inhambu-codorna, inhambu-onça, inhambu-relógio

9. any species of catfish capable of emitting a sound similar to crying
   1. (specifically) Trachycorystes galeatus, a driftwood catfish

   Synonym: anujá

Adjective

chorão (feminine chorona, masculine plural chorões, feminine plural choronas)

1. who is a crybaby
2. (botany) pendulous (having branches that bend downwards)

Related terms

• chorar
• choro

Pronunciation 2

See choram.

Verb

chorão

1. (obsolete) Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of choram, now a common misspelling.