furão
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See also: fùráo
Portuguese
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Ferret_2008.png/220px-Ferret_2008.png)
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: fu‧rão
Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Galician-Portuguese foron, from Late Latin fūrōnem (“thief”), from Classical Latin fūr (“thief”), from Proto-Italic *fōr (“thief”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰṓr (“thief”), which is derived from *bʰer- (“to carry”).
Cognate with Galician furón, Spanish hurón, Catalan and Occitan fura, French furet, English ferret and Italian furetto.
Noun
[edit]furão m (plural furões)
- ferret (Mustela putorius furo)
- (colloquial, figurative) meddler, ferreter
- Synonyms: abelhudo, bisbilhoteiro
- (Brazil, figurative) a hard-working person
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]furão m (plural furões)
- Augmentative of furo (“hole”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]furão
Further reading
[edit]- “furão” in Dicio - Dicionário Online de Português (in Portuguese), Porto: 7Graus, 2009–2024
- “furão”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
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