mesquinho
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn, “poor”).[1][2] Compare Galician mesquiño, Spanish mezquino, French mesquin.
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: mes‧qui‧nho
Adjective
[edit]mesquinho (feminine mesquinha, masculine plural mesquinhos, feminine plural mesquinhas)
- stingy, mean, miserly, niggardly
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:avarento
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “mesquinho”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “mesquinho”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024