quenga
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Kimbundu kienga (“pot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: quen‧ga
Noun
[edit]quenga f (plural quengas)
- (Brazil) a container made with half of a coconut shell
- (Angola, Brazil, derogatory) prostitute; immoral woman
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:prostituta
- (Brazil) chicken stew with okra
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “quenga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024