romã

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "roma"

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese romãa, and in the sense of pomegranate a phono-semantic matching of Arabic رُمَّانَة (rummāna, “pomegranate”)[1][2] parsed as Latin rōmāna (“Roman”).[3][4][5][6][7]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃
  • Hyphenation: ro‧mã

Adjective

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romã

  1. feminine singular of romão

Noun

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romã f (plural romãs)

  1. female equivalent of romão
  2. pomegranate (fruit)
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References

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  1. ^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 478, though the terminology of phono-semantic matching is unknown to this book.
  2. ^ Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne, Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869) Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe‎[1] (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 335
  3. ^ I.e. a Latin term not actually attested for this fruit or plant, or if so then borrowed from Portuguese, but frequently given to the exclusion of the Arabic term.
  4. ^ “romã”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
  5. ^ “romã”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
  6. ^ “romã”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
  7. ^ “romã”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
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