bacana

Portuguese

Etymology

Either: originating from the Portuguese term bacanal; or borrowed from Ligurian bacan. Compare Spanish bacán (“cool”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɐnɐ

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈkɐ̃.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈkɐ̃.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /baˈkɐ.na/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈkɐ.nɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈkɐ.nɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɐˈka.nɐ/

Adjective

bacana

1. (Brazil, informal) cool, nice

   Synonyms: (Brazil, informal) legal, (Brazil, slang) massa

2. feminine singular of bacano

Noun

bacana m or f by sense (plural bacanas)

1. (Brazil, slang) rich person

   Synonyms: grã-fina, rico

Related terms

• bacano

Further reading

• “bacana”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “bacana”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Serbo-Croatian

Participle

bacana (Cyrillic spelling бацана)

1. inflection of bacati:
   1. feminine singular passive past participle
   2. neuter plural passive past participle

Spanish

Adjective

bacana

1. feminine singular of bacán
2. feminine singular of bacano