centavo

São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe

(historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).


Mozambique

Borrowed from Portuguese Moçambique, from the name of sultan Mussa Bin Bique.

Republic of Mozambique
Republic of Mozambique#English

A country in East Africa and Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Mozambique (since 1990). Capital: Maputo.

People's Republic of Mozambique
People's Republic of Mozambique

(historical, from 1975) The former communist country of the People's Republic of Mozambique.

(historical, from the 16th century) A former colony of Portugal.


Mozambican

From New Latin Mozambica + -an (suffix forming adjectives).

affix

A native or inhabitant of Mozambique, or a descendant of such person.

Mosambieker

person from Mozambique or of Mozambican descent


metical

/ˌmɛtɪˈkɑːl/

Borrowed from Portuguese metical, from Arabic مِثْقَال (miṯqāl, “weight”). Doublet of mithqal

The currency of Mozambique, divided into 100 centavos.


metica

A proposed currency of Mozambique in the 1970s, never put into circulation.


Portuguese East Africa

A former colony of Portugal in East Africa, now called Mozambique.


Mozambique Channel

A strait in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Mozambique


The telephone number for law enforcement in Jamaica, Mozambique, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.

119 handles fires and medical emergencies in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea but the police have a separate number, 110.

The telephone number for ambulance services in Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea and on Taiwan.

The telephone number for COVID-19 emergencies in the United Kingdom's Home Counties.


People's Republic of Mozambique

(history) A former country in East Africa, a communist state that existed from 1975 to 1990.


Mozambiquan

en-adj

Mozambiquan (comparative more Mozambiquan, superlative most Mozambiquan)

more Mozambiquan (comparative)
most Mozambiquan (superlative)

From Mozambique + -an (suffix forming adjectives).


Mozambiquan

“The Mozambiquans,” quips Mai disparagingly.

2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 299: