calão
Portuguese
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
- Hyphenation: ca‧lão
Etymology 1
From Spanish caló, from Caló caló, from Romani kalo.
Noun
calão m (uncountable)
- vulgar slang; argot
- jargon (language characteristic of a particular group)
- Caló (a language spoken by the Spanish and Portuguese Romani)
- 1975, Arthur Ramos, As culturas européias e europeizadas[1], Livraria-Editora da Casa do Estudante do Brasil, page 260:
- Sua língua no Brasil é o caló, calon ou calão, que por extensão passou a ser sinônimo de gíria ou geringonça.
- Their language in Brazil is the Caló, Calon or Calão, which, by extension, became a synonym of slang or argot.
- 2002, Hildo Honório do Couto, Anticrioulo: manifestação lingüística de resistência cultural, Thesaurus Editora, page 20:
- Em (7) dou um exemplo do anglo-romani (a) e um do calão (calon) português(b), que está no mesmo caso, só que com gramática espanhola.
- In (7) I provide an example from Angloromani (a) and one from Portuguese Caló (calon) (b), which is in the same case, but with Spanish grammar.
- 2009, Cristina da Costa Pereira, Os ciganos ainda estão na estrada[2], Rocco, page 49:
- Por meio de formas dialetais (manuche, calão), ciganos das mais diversas partes do mundo podem, contudo, se entender razoavelmente, considerando-se que têm como base linguística o romani.
- By means of dialectal forms (Manouche, Caló), gypsies from various parts of the world can, however, understand one another reasonably well, in view of the fact they have Romani as a linguistic ancestor.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Unknown. Possibly the same as above.
Noun
calão m (plural calões, feminine calona, feminine plural calonas)
- an indolent individual
- Synonyms: preguiçoso, vadio, vagaba, vagabundo
Adjective
calão (feminine calona, masculine plural calões, feminine plural calonas)
Etymology 3
From cala (“rope for nets”) + -ão.
Noun
calão m (plural calões)
- a type of long boat used in the Algarve for fishing tuna
- carrying pole
- Synonym: canga
- a type of fishing net, with floaters in three corners and a sinker in the fourth corner
Etymology 4
Noun
calão m (plural calões)
Etymology 5
From kalam in a Dravidian language.
Noun
calão m (plural calões)
- a type of large container for liquids
Etymology 6
Noun
calão m (plural calões)
- Augmentative of calo
Etymology 7
Verb
calão
Categories:
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃w̃/2 syllables
- Portuguese terms derived from Spanish
- Portuguese terms derived from Caló
- Portuguese terms derived from Romani
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese uncountable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- Portuguese terms with unknown etymologies
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese adjectives
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -ão
- Portuguese terms derived from Dravidian languages
- Portuguese augmentative nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Portuguese obsolete forms
- pt:Containers
- pt:Fishing
- pt:Languages
- pt:Tools
- pt:Watercraft