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romã

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese romãa, and in the sense of pomegranate a phono-semantic matching of Arabic رُمَّانَة (rummāna, pomegranate)[1][2] parsed as Latin rōmāna (Roman).[3][4][5][6][7]

    Pronunciation

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    • Rhymes: -ɐ̃
    • Hyphenation: ro‧mã

    Adjective

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    romã

    1. feminine singular of romão

    Noun

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    romã f (plural romãs)

    1. female equivalent of romão
    2. pomegranate (fruit)
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    References

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    1. ^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2019), Dictionnaire des emprunts ibéro-romans. Emprunts à l’arabe et aux langues du Monde Islamique (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 478, though the terminology of phono-semantic matching is unknown to this book.
    2. ^ Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne; Engelmann, Wilhelm Hermann (1869), Glossaire des mots espagnols et portugais, dérivés de l’arabe[1] (in French), 2nd edition, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 335
    3. ^ I.e. a Latin term not actually attested for this fruit or plant, or if so then borrowed from Portuguese, but frequently given to the exclusion of the Arabic term.
    4. ^ romã”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
    5. ^ romã”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
    6. ^ romã”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
    7. ^ romã”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025