pipoca
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
Synonyms
- (popcorn): pororoca
- (skin boil): See Thesaurus:pústula
- (tapeworm cyst): canjica, canjiquinha, cisticerco, cisto, pipoquinha
Derived terms
Related terms
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”), from Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Cooking
- pt:Foods
- pt:Worms
- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
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- Spanish terms derived from Old Tupi
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Bolivian Spanish