pamonha
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English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Pamonha_1.jpg/220px-Pamonha_1.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pamonha. From Old Tupi pa'muña (“sticky”).
Noun
[edit]pamonha (countable and uncountable, plural pamonhas)
- A traditional Brazilian food, a dumpling made from sweetcorn and milk boiled wrapped in the husk, sometimes with a sweet or savoury filling; associated with festa junina winter celebrations.
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Two possibilities borrowed from Old Tupi:
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]pamonha f (plural pamonhas)
Noun
[edit]pamonha m or f by sense (plural pamonhas)
- (Brazil, colloquial, derogatory) fool
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
- (Brazil, colloquial, derogatory) lazy
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:preguiçoso
- 1946, João Guimarães Rosa, “Sarapalha”, in Sagarana, 1 edition, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Universal:
- Agora, ela havia de se lembrar, achando que era um pamonha, um homem sem decisão […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- ^ “pamonha”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- ^ “pamonha”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “pamonha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “(e)mimõîa”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 100, column 1
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