gagau
Appearance
Niuean
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reduplication of gau.
Verb
[edit]gagau
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -aw
Etymology 1
[edit]Alteration of mingau.
Noun
[edit]gagau m (plural gagaus)
- (childish) synonym of mingau.
- 2016 February 17, Tina Correia, Essa Menina[1], Alfaguara, →ISBN:
- Todo mundo estranhou a repentina tranquilidade da recém-nascida e sua visível perda de peso, até que a irmã, Damiana, falou para titia que a mãe botava "o gagau do pai" na mamadeira da irmázinha e na fralda que o bebê cheirava.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Etymology 2
[edit]Unknown.
Noun
[edit]gagau m (plural gagaus)
- (Mozambique) a set of goat and hyena bones, mixed with white and black pebbles, considered an oracle by certain peoples of Mozambique
Further reading
[edit]- “gagau”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “gagau”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “gagau”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Categories:
- Niuean reduplications
- Niuean lemmas
- Niuean verbs
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese childish terms
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- Portuguese terms with unknown etymologies
- Mozambican Portuguese