Mirandese

See also: mirandese

English

Adjective

Mirandese (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Miranda do Douro (in the northeast corner of Portugal), its people, their culture, or their now-endangered Romance language.

Noun

Mirandese (plural Mirandese)

1. A native or inhabitant of Miranda do Douro in northeastern corner of Portugal.
   • 1895, Edmondo De Amicis (translated by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall), Spain and the Spaniards, volume 1, page 95:

     Toward evening a Mirandese came in: he was a man of about fifty, a politician, bright and talkative, and so I left the carabineros to join him.

Translations

speaker of Mirandese

• Catalan: mirandès m
• Finnish: mirandeesi (fi)
• Mirandese: mirandés
• Portuguese: mirandês (pt) m

native or inhabitant of Miranda do Douro

• Catalan: mirandès m
• Finnish: mirandalainen
• Portuguese: mirandês (pt) m
• Spanish: mirandés (es) m, mirandesa (es) f

Proper noun

Mirandese

1. An endangered Romance language spoken in the northeastern corner of Portugal, principally in the municipalities of Miranda do Douro and Vimioso.
   • 1974, R. Joe Campbell, Mark G. Goldin, Mary Clayton Wang, editors, Linguistic studies in Romance languages: Proceedings, page 41:

     My example is taken from the Portuguese dialect of Mirandese, more specifically Mirandese as spoken in the area of Sendim […]

Translations

Romance language

• Arabic: لُغَة مِيرَانْدِيَّة f (luḡa mīrandiyya)
• Aragonese: mirandés
• Asturian: mirandés (ast)
• Basque: mirandera
• Breton: mirandeg
• Catalan: mirandès
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 米蘭德斯語／米兰德斯语 (Mǐlándésī yǔ)

• Danish: mirandesisk
• Dutch: mirandees
• Finnish: mirandeesi (fi)
• French: mirandais (fr) m
• Galician: mirandés (gl) m, lingua mirandesa f
• German: Mirandés n
• Hebrew: מירנדזית
• Icelandic: mirandês
• Indonesian: bahasa miranda
• Italian: lingua mirandese
• Japanese: ミランダ語 (Miranda-go)
• Korean: 미란다어 (Miranda'eo)
• Latin: lingua Mirandica f, lingua Mirandensis f, mirandica f, mirandensis m or f
• Limburgish: Mirandieësj n
• Mirandese: mirandés m, lhéngua mirandesa f
• Norwegian: mirandesisk
• Portuguese: língua mirandesa f, mirandês (pt) m
• Romanian: mirandeză f, limba mirandeză f
• Russian: мира́ндский (ru) m (mirándskij) (язы́к), миранде́с m (mirandɛ́s)
• Scots: Mirandese
• Spanish: mirandés (es) m, idioma mirandés m

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Mirandese terms

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Mirandese, mwl ⁠