chuva

chuva filo-filo

chuva fino-fino

light rain (literally, “very thin rain”)

chuva pedra

Nunca costumado têm chuva Otubro


dia

tudo dia

always; every day (literally, “all day”)


mana

Alternative form of mána: older / oldest sister


ano

ano passado

ano trasado

abrí ano

to bring in the New Year (literally, “to open the year”)

fichâ ano

to have a birthday (literally, “to close the year”)


home

From Portuguese home, denasalized variant of homem.

home-home di hoze


casa

na casa

trabalo di casa


chop

Borrowed from English chop, ultimately from Hindi छाप (chāp, “stamp”). Most likely also influenced by Cantonese chop. Sense 2 derives from the absent professor being recorded with a stamp, i.e. a chop, in a register.

Hoje tivemos chope de matemática.

(literally, “Today we had chop of mathematics.”)

Today our mathematics professor was absent.

O Dr. F. deu chope.


chá

Borrowed from Cantonese 茶 (caa⁴), uncertain whether via Portuguese or later lent to Portuguese.

Camellia sinensis
Camellia sinensis#Translingual

chá co sucre

vazâ chá

Dâ unga xicra di chá pa iou

chá di hortelám di sopa

chá di pêlo-pê

infusion to ward off frights (literally, “hair-feet tea”)

chá di peso

infusion to protect against indigestion or stomachache (literally, “tea of weight”)

any drink made with an infusion of medicinal plants

chá gordo

festive luncheon served in the late afternoon (literally, “fat tea”)


caixa

From Portuguese caixa (“box”). Unusually, de-diphthongization did not take place (compare caxám, Spanish caja).

measure of weight, one tenth of the condorim, formerly used in Macau to weigh silver used as currency in commercial transactions

camphor or teak trunk, engraved with Chinese drawings and intended for storing clothes


porco

Presumably from Portuguese porco, from Old Galician-Portuguese porco, from Latin porcus, from Proto-Italic *porkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos (“young swine, young pig”).

der

ramendâ unga porco

porco balichám tamarinho

Macanese dish prepared with pork, tamarind and balichám (dried shrimp paste)

porco chau-chau parida

special pork stew served to woman after giving birth (literally, “pork stir-fry birthed”)


sora

Clipping of Portuguese professora, feminine form of professor.

Sora, ele sempre chubí eu!

Sora, êle dáli eu!


ora

Cinco-óra, assí

têm ora

Desde qui ora?

Since when? (literally, “Since what time?”)

unchinho-unchinho ora


oficina

Presumably from Portuguese oficina, although probably influenced by English office.

tifinâ na oficina

to have lunch at (one's desk at) the office

office (a room used for non-manual work)


rua

na meo di rua

tambâ buraco di rua

atâi di rua

uneducated boy (literally, “boy of the street”)

varê rua

to always stay outside; to sweep the street


vaca

From Portuguese vaca, from Old Galician-Portuguese vaca, from Latin vacca.

vaca chacháu margoso

vaca minchi

champurâ vaca com brêdo


fula

Borrowed from Marathi फूल (phūl), from Sanskrit फुल्ल (phulla), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-. Distantly cognate with Portuguese flor (“flower”).

nhonha co fula


china

a Chinese person, especially from mainland China

China tâ dismanchâ baraca

The Chinese are taking down the scaffolding


ucho

Já vêm co unga ucho

Atúto qui boniteza, ja dâ unga ucho pa su mai
Atúto is so sweet, he kissed his mother
(literally, “Atúto is so sweet, he gave a kiss to his mother”)


filo

filo-di-quim

filo-grándi

filo trás di porta


cadera

From Portuguese cadeira, from Old Galician-Portuguese cadeira, from Vulgar Latin *cathēgra, variant of Latin cathedra, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra), from κατά (katá, “above”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “chair”).

dói cadera

(to have) lower back pain; kidney pain; pain in the buttocks

(anatomy) lumbar region (the back at the kidney level)


cham

From Portuguese chão (“ground”), inherited from Latin plānum (“level ground”).

Fu-fula semea na cham di Hong-Gong

Flowers picked from the soil of Hong Kong


achar

From Malay acar, from Classical Malay اچر (acar), from Classical Persian آچار (āčār, “pickle, marinade”). Compare Indonesian acar. Etymologically unrelated to Portuguese achar or its Macanese descendant achâ.

comê achar

achar (preserve or pickle, made of spring onions, cabbage, coconut, apple, pear, etc. in vinegar and salt, (formerly) eaten as an appetizer or a street food using toothpicks)


vagar

From Old Galician-Portuguese vagar, with influence from Portuguese devagar.

Iou nôm têm vagar

Si têm vagar lôgo vêm


letrado

From Old Galician-Portuguese leterado, possibly with semantic influence from Spanish letrado.


festa

festa di quebrâ testa

big party; solemn commemoration (literally, “party of break forehead”)

festa di fichâ ano

Quelê-tánto náchi-náchi na festa

There were many Chinese people at the festival

missa festa


estória

Úndi vôs uví estunga estória?


nina

From Portuguese nina, clipping of menina. Possibly a doublet of nhim.


sopa

From Portuguese sopa, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô.

sopa encorpado

sópa lacassá


orde

Most likely from a de-nasalized variant of Portuguese ordem, Old Galician-Portuguese ordin, orden. Alternatively, from Dutch orde via Indonesian, although this is less likely. Regardless, ultimately from Latin ōrdinem.

seguí orde

orde têm na rabo

to ignore an order (literally, “to have an order at the back”)


chupa

Borrowed from Malay cupak (pronounced /t͡ʃupaʔ/). First documented in the Ou-Mun Kei Leok published in 1751.

wooden or bamboo cylinder, closed at one end, formerly used to measure dry goods such as rice or beans, as well as liquids like milk


pintura

From Old Galician-Portuguese pintura, from Vulgar Latin *pinctūra, from Latin pictūra. Sense 4 possibly a semantic loan from Cantonese 畫 /画 (compare Chinese 上畫 /上画 (shànghuà, “(of a movie) to release on screen”, literally “up painting”)), and both senses 3 and 4 may have been influenced by English picture.

cog

Ondi vas já vai gafinhâ estunga pintura?

tirâ pintura

olâ pintura


tacho

chacháu pêle (Macanese stew made with puffed dried pork skin)


bazar

Presumably from Portuguese bazar (“bazaar”), from Italian bazar, from Persian بازار (bâzâr, “market”), from Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (wʾčʾl /wāzār/, “market”).

der

vai bazar comprâ sôm


pastro

From Portuguese pássaro, although exact process of emergence of -t- unclear.

pastro tâ aguâ

home di caçâ pastro

bird catcher (literally, “man of catching bird”)

nínho di pastro


rópa

From Portuguese roupa. Compare Spanish ropa.

usâ rópa

to get dressed (literally, “to use clothes”)

levâ rópa-rópa pa mainato

rópa qui sai di bóca di cám

wrinkled dress (literally, “dress that has come from a dog's mouth”)


chiste

fazê chiste

fazê pa chiste

chiste qui nóm-têm chiste

Sevandizo sã pensá qui onçôm têm tánto chiste

The sycophant who thinks he has much charm

laia-laia di chiste


ade

From Old Galician-Portuguese ãade (“duck; mallard”), possibly via a de-nasalized variant of Portuguese adem (“mallard”).

ade salgado

ade-cabidela

voz di ade-macho

hoarse/husky voice (literally, “voice of male duck”)


paga

From Old Galician-Portuguese paga. Compare Galician paga (“payment; salary”).

quelóra recebê paga

when getting paid (literally, “when receiving the salary”)

Êle têm bôm paga


mungo

From Hindi मूँग (mūṅg) (possibly via Indo-Portuguese), from Sanskrit मुद्ग (mudga).


cám

ferâ cám

to swindle (literally, “to deceive dog”)

rópa qui sai di bóca di cám

wrinkled dress (literally, “a dress that has come from a dog's mouth”)


fita

fita di sapato

fita-cinéma

olâ fita


bife

From Portuguese bife, from English beef, from Old French buef, from Latin bovem (“ox”).

bife pó bolacho


bafo

From Portuguese bafo (“breath”), of onomatopoeic origin.

bafo di ade

a person who talks a lot and repetitively


sós

Probably borrowed from English sauce, ultimately from French sauce. Compare Malay sos.

Worcestershire sauce
Worcestershire sauce


mám

From Portuguese mão, with influence from Cantonese 手 (sau²).

pê-mám

mám-fichado

miserly, tight-fisted (literally, “hand closed”)

mám tánto

person who interferes with things that are not their responsibility (literally, “much hand”)

mám cumprido

thief; sticky-fingered, prone to stealing (literally, “long hand”)

mám di fada

nimble-fingered (literally, “hand of fairy”)

mám pa trás

idle-handed; lazy person (literally, “hand at back”)

pegâ mám andâ rua

cai pê-mám

to lose one's temper; to become disoriented (literally, “to fall feet-hands”)

mám-lárgo

mám-macaco

mám-fêde

someone with a dirty mind (literally, “stinky hand”)

mám-cutí

pê-mám


genti

Nôs sã genti di sorti porque já nacê na Macau.

We are lucky people because we were born in Macau.


regra

rabiscâ dôs regra


lám

Olea europaea
Olea europaea#Translingual


lám

From Portuguese lã, possibly further influenced by Cantonese 冷 (laang¹, “wool yarn”). Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese lãa (“wool”), from Latin lāna (“wool”).

tecê lám

bola di lám


cafre

Presumably from Portuguese cafre, from Arabic كَافِر (kāfir, “infidel”).


cajola

Possibly from some dialectal variant of Portuguese gaiola. Compare Spanish gayola.

leám na cajola


oclo

From Portuguese óculo, from Latin oculus (“eye”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃okʷ-. Doublet of ôlo.

Iou nôm sabe úndi já rafundí iou-sua ôclo

Chacha tâ buscâ su oclo


turum

Uncertain. Hypothesized by some to derive from Malay turun (“to go down, to descend”).

pardal jugá turum

a traditional Macanese game, played with sticks?, formerly popular amongst the ethnic Chinese in Macau


bóca

From Portuguese boca, with many idiomatic uses being calques of Cantonese 口 (hau²) or 嘴 (zeoi²).

bóca aberto

bóca dóci

sweet-talker, somebody who has an affected manner of speech (literally, “sweet mouth”)

bóca cherâ lete

someone who still has a lot to learn in life (literally, “mouth smell milk”)

bóca sujo

swearer, person who swears a lot (literally, “smelly mouth”)

bóca-torto


caréta

Merger of Portuguese careta (sense 3) and carreta. Senses 1 and 2 are a semantic loan from Cantonese 車 /车 (ce¹), although influence from Portuguese carro also possible.

caréta dôdo

careta di suzo

cart formerly used to collect excrement (literally, “cart of excrement”)

pussâ carêta

sentâ caréta

to go by vehicle (as opposed to on foot)

Unga careta já choncâ na otrunga

fazê caréta

to grimace (literally, “to make grimace(s)”)


babá

Possibly of onomatopoeic origin. Most likely unrelated to Cantonese 爸爸 (baa⁴ baa¹, “dad”).

Coordinate term: atâi (“Chinese boy”)


vun

Borrowed from Cantonese 碗 (wun², “bowl”).

bor+

Já comê dôs vun di arôz agora querê más

They (sg.) ate two bowls of rice and still wants more


sium

Possibly from an Afro-Portuguese variant of Portuguese senhor, reduced to *siô, with nasalization taking place by analogy of nhum. Doublet of nhum, via an older form nhom.

Sium Capitám

Nina azinha têm su sium.


hoze

Hoze sâm domingo

(figurative) today, nowadays, these days


nhi

Nhi Pancha, passá bem?


canje

Presumably from Portuguese canja, from Malayalam കഞ്ഞി (kaññi). Semantically, possibly influenced by English congee (especially sense 2), ultimately also from the Malayalam source.

canje branco

simple broth with rice (literally, “white chicken broth”)

canje fula papaia


friza

freezer (appliance or section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius)


ânsia

ânsia feo olâ


laia

tudo laia; laia-laia

destunga laia

qui laia?


clareza

Presumably from Portuguese clareza (“clarity”), albeit with a shift in meaning.

fazê favô dâ vosso clareza

dâ clareza

to explain (literally, “to give an explanation”)


pê

From Portuguese pé, with influence from Cantonese 腳 /脚 (goek³).

pê marado

pê solto

cai pê-mám

to lose one's temper; to get disoriented (literally, “to fall feet and hands”)

chá di pêlo-pê

infusion to ward off frights (literally, “hair-feet tea”)


macaísta

From Portuguese macaísta, from Macau + -ista.


jinela

nhonha na jinela


amôr

Êle qui amôr!

Olá bem-fêto qualunga / Más tánto amô mer'cê.

Look well to see which of them / Is most worthy of love.


botelha

From Portuguese botelha, from French bouteille.


cafelo

From dialectal Portuguese cafelo (“first plaster or mortar on a wall”).


bói

Borrowed from English boy. Semantically unrelated to Portuguese boy.

Chomâ bói trazê café co lête

Ask the waiter to bring coffee with milk


cúli

Most likely from English coolie, from Hindustani क़ुली / قلی (qulī, “hired laborer”), possibly from Ottoman Turkish قول (kul, “servant”).

cabéça-di-cúli

stevedore at the docks and markets responsible for a team of coolies; head of coolies

Chomâ quanto cúli para cartá tudo ancuza

Call for a few coolies to carry everything

(derogatory) useless person, person of no worth


lacassá

sópa lacassá


lete

bebinca di lete

café co lête

china di lête


tamarinho

porco balichám tamarinho

Macanese dish prepared with pork, tamarind and the traditional dried shrimp paste, balichám (literally, “pork balichám tamarind”)


sapeca

Apparently Malay sa (“one”) + Malay paku (“thread of one hundred pichi coins”). Originally described a round coppern coin (hence sense 2), with a square hole in the centre, formerly used in China. Term formerly used jocularly to imitate Macanese, however is now the most common term to refer to money, this development possibly being a (relatively old) semantic loan from Cantonese 錢 /钱. Compare French sapèque, from the same Malay origin.

com

Iou nôm têm sapeca


bebinca

Unclear. Possibly from Konkani [script needed] (bibik), or borrowed from Malay bingka (“Malay cake made of rice flour, coconut cream, eggs and sugar”), entering Macanese via Indo-Portuguese with reduplication of the first syllable. Likely not related to Portuguese beber (“to drink”). Compare Tagalog bibingka, Cebuano bibingka, Hiligaynon bibingka, Spanish vivinca.

bor+

bebinca di lete

bebinca di nabo, bebinca-rábano

bebinca-pulú


fan-tan

Borrowed from Cantonese 番攤 /番摊 (faan¹ taan¹, literally “repeated divisions”); see English entry.


hómi

Respelt by analogy of words like chávi, pódi.

Ung’a hómi cô ung’a mulé.


águ

Vai rua, pussá bafado, / Bebê águ di Lilau.

1983, José dos Santos Ferreira, Poéma di Macau: poesia e prosa, dialecto macaense:

Going on the street, too tired even to breathe, / Drink the water of Lilau.


mulé

From Portuguese mulher. Compare Kristang mulé.


nhonha

Possibly from Portuguese dona or Malay nyonya or Portuguese senhora. See also Spanish doña (“lady”) and Hokkien 娘惹 (nō͘-niâ) & 娘仔 (niô͘-á, “young lady”).

Coordinate term: nhum

Nhonha canta.


amui

head

amui (plural amui-amui, diminutive amuichai)

amui-amui (plural)
amuichai (diminutive)

Borrowed from Cantonese 阿妹 (aa3 mui6-2, aa3 mui6-1).

Amui corrê vem gudam.

girl, specifically an unmarried Chinese girl from a humble background


nhum

From Portuguese senhor, via an older nhom, which seems to have been an abbreviation arisen from Afro-Portuguese. Compare Portuguese nhô, Kabuverdianu nho, nhu. Doublet of sium.

Coordinate term: nhonha

Nhum nunca-sam di aqui.


rê

rê di festa

rê na bariga

braggart, cocky person (literally, “king in stomach”)

rê-di-bôlo

spoiled, rude child (literally, “king of cake”)

Têm rê na bariga, nôm pôde intra unga fijám

(literally, “He who has a king in his stomach cannot make way for a bean”)

metaphor said of someone who is very arrogant


atâi

Atâi corrê vem gudam.


téra

Já ajudâ estunga téra quelê tanto, botâ tanto suor, lágri co sángui, pramor di su saúdi co vida.

We worked hard for this land, with sweat, tears and blood, for its well-being and life.

Já saltâ píqui-píqui di téra na rópa


nómi

From Portuguese nome. Compare Kabuverdianu nómi, Guinea-Bissau Creole nomi.

Nôs-sa Macau sâm Cidade di Nómi di Dios!

Our Macau is the City of the Holy Name of God!

Patuá sã nómi qui genti di geraçám novo chomá língu antigo di Macau.
Patuá is a name that the new generation use to call the old language of Macau.

Êle-sa nómi di casa sâm Chácha.
His nickname is Chácha.

nómi di casa

nickname, diminutive, affectionate family name


iscada

From Portuguese escada (“ladder, stairs”).

iscada qui istrêto


carí

Ultimately from Tamil கறி (kaṟi), with the L-less form most likely via Malay or Indonesian kari.

carí di móro


siao

Borrowed from Cantonese 豉油 (si⁶ jau⁴, si⁶ jau⁴⁻²).


cális

From Old Galician-Portuguese calez /caliz, from Latin calicem. Compare Portuguese cálice.

Tóne tâ bebê unga cáliz di vinho-Porto.
Tóne is drinking a glass of port.


fólia

From Portuguese folha. Sense 3 likely a semantic loan from Cantonese 葉 /叶 (jip⁶, “leaf”) and 頁 /页 (jip⁶, “page”), although emergence of sense 4 probably not related to Cantonese.

semantic loan

Já cavâ faze liçam di casa? Nunca nâ, faltâ três folia

Have you finished your homework yet? Not yet, I still have three pages

botâ na fólia

Já sai na fólia


cuza

Senses 1 and 2 a clipping of qui cuza or quê cuza (literally “which thing”), while sense 3 a clipping of pa qui cuza (literally “for which thing”). Ultimately derives from dated Portuguese cousa (as opposed to modern Portuguese coisa), as does the -cusa component in ancusa. Semantically, compare Italian cosa.

clipping

quê cuza?

pa qui cuza?

(obsolete, or only in fixed phrases) thing (a physical object, entity or situation)


mána

Presumably from Portuguese mana, from Spanish hermana.

female equivalent of máno: older sister, oldest sister


xicra

From Portuguese xícara, from Spanish jícara, ultimately from Classical Nahuatl xīcalli.

Dâ unga xicra di chá pa iou


patuá

Derived from Portuguese patoá, borrowed from Old French patois.


mainato

Borrowed from Malayalam [script needed] (mannattan), most likely via Indo-Portuguese.

bor+

levâ rópa-rópa pa mainato

laundry (a place or room where laundering is done)


nhonhonha

Shortened form of nhonha-nhonha, reduplication of nhonha. Compare Malay nyonya-nyonya.

Coordinate term: nhunhum

Nhonhonha canta.


bolacho

From a theoretical masculine form of Portuguese bolacha (“biscuit; slap”).

bolacho-soda


minchi

Borrowed from Cantonese 免治 (min⁵ zi⁶), itself from English mince. Alternatively, from Japanese ミンチ (minchi) (also presumably from the English term), although this is less likely.

traditional Macanese dish made with minced pork or beef and fried with onion and other condiments


nhame

From Portuguese inhame, from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”).


bâs

Borrowed from English bus. Compare Malay bas.

sentâ bâs

Tudo dia sentâ bâs vai comprâ sôm.

I take the bus every day to go buy groceries.


arôz

arôz grám-grám

undercooked rice (literally, “grained rice”)

Já comê dôs porcelana di arôz


arôz chauchau

/aˈɾos t͡ʃɐwˌt͡ʃɐw/

/aˈɾoʃ t͡ʃɐwˌt͡ʃɐw/


vêlo-công

Estung'a velo-công ui-di boca brejero!


bôlo nata

pastel de nata (Portuguese custard tart)


leong-fan

Borrowed from Cantonese 涼粉 /凉粉 (loeng⁴ fan²).


leongfanêro

Chinese diver who collects oysters from the muddy waters of Macau and cracks them open


pâm

torâ pâm

pâm-di-casa

a very light, sweet bread, usually made at home (literally, “home bread”)

nôvo-nôvo, pâm co ovo

a new broom sweeps clean (literally, “very new, bread with egg”)

a small piece of any substance, usually shaped like a brick


chau-chau-lau-lau

Borrowed from Cantonese 吵吵鬧鬧 /吵吵闹闹 (caau² caau² naau⁶ naau⁶).

Ung'a chau-chau-lau-lau námas!


sôm

Uncertain, but possibly borrowed from Cantonese 餸 /𩠌 (sung³, “dish”).

Palangana grándi-grándi di sôm

Vai bazar comprâ sôm

to go to the market to get groceries (literally, “to go to the market to buy food”)

sôm-cachôro

dish made by using up odds and ends in the kitchen


sôm

Corneta nôm têm sôm


gudám

Borrowed from Malay gudang (“warehouse”), possibly directly or via Portuguese gudão. Adverbial sense and alternative spelling probably influenced by English go down, itself influenced by the Malay term in the form of godown.


santám

Borrowed from Malay santan, from Old Javanese santĕn (“coconut milk”), from Sanskrit सार (sāra, “essence”).

chau-cháu co santám


chau-cháu

Reduplication of Cantonese 炒 (caau², “to stir-fry”). Compare Chinese Pidgin English chow-chow.

chau-chau pêle

said stew made with pêle (puffed dried pork skin), pork, chinese sausages and cabbage

Chinese stew, usually made of a mixture of meats and vegetables


afêt

Cantonese 阿 (“prefix to express familiarity or friendliness”) + English fat (pronounced /fɛt/ in a typical Cantonese accent).


náchi

Quelê-tánto náchi-náchi na festa

There were a lot of Chinese at the party

(back slang) Alternative form of china: a Chinese person


quachí

seeds, especially watermelon seeds consumed as a snack


min-pau

Borrowed from Cantonese 麵包 /面包 (min⁶ baau¹).

bor+

min-pau quente-quente


amochâi

amôr + Cantonese 仔 (zai2, “son; affectionate diminutive suffix”).

com

Criança-criança ui-de amochâi

What cute children (literally, “children such sweetie(s)”)


tu-tum-piám

Borrowed from Cantonese 頭痛片 /头痛片 (tau⁴ tung³ pin³, “headache tablet/pill”). Exact semantic shift unclear.

bor+

(derogatory) nincompoop, usually an older person of no worth


tôm-tôm

Sense 1 (and possibly 2) derive from reduplication of Cantonese 糖 (“sugar; candy”), with the reduplication either taking place internally in Macanese or within Cantonese, as part of baby-speak. Influence from French bonbon also possible, but less likely.

Macau-Paio

pejorative name given to Macanese living in Macau by the tom-toms

dried animal excrement, especially from a dog or a cat

(derogatory) a name for Macanese descendants living in Hong Kong


cacús

Borrowed from Dutch kakhuis (“loo; outhouse”), probably via Malaccan Malay, Indonesian kakus, or another language spoken by Dutch-colonized peoples. Compare Javanese ꦏꦏꦸꦱ꧀ (kakus), Kristang kakus, Papiamentu kakushi (from the Dutch diminutive kakhuisje), Ternate kakus.

Ora vai pra cacus!

vulgar expression indicating impatience or anger (literally, “It's time to go to the toilet!”)


amuichai

amui + Cantonese 仔 (zai², “diminutive suffix”) and/or Cantonese 阿 (aa³, “familiar prefix”) + Cantonese 妹仔 (mui⁶⁻¹ zai², “maid”).

com

diminutive of amui: very young Chinese girl


ancusa

Ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese algũa cousa (“something, anything”), likely via an earlier form of Portuguese alguma coisa, possibly algũa cousa reduced via [alguŋa kuza] → [a uŋa kuza] → [aŋkuza]. Semantically, displaced cuza as a noun. Compare Galician algunha cousa.

der

estunga ancusa

tudo ancusa

Sentâ na casa, renâ ancuza triste

To sit at home, thinking about sad things


apó

apó cartâ águ

elderly Chinese woman of humble background


lap-sap

Borrowed from Cantonese 垃圾 (laap⁶ saap³).

bor+

Amochâi, vôs atirâ sapeca tê lap-sap!

(literally, “Dear, you are throwing money to the trash!”)

Sorte quê APIM já oferecê bilête pa iou; si nunca, sâm atirâ sapeca tê lap-sap.

(literally, “...it is throwing money to the trash”)

Luckily, APIM offered me tickets; otherwise, it would be like throwing my money away.


coraçám

coraçám cósca

someone who wants to speak out but remains quiet (literally, “heart tickled”)

coraçám duro

cruel, dispassionate (literally, “hard heart”)

coraçám grándi

coraçám móli

coraçám tanto

dôi coraçám

Êle sâm bôm-coracám é

mau coraçám

evil person (literally, “bad-hearted person”)


lugâ

Merger of Portuguese lugar and alugar. As a noun, sense 2 a semantic loan from Cantonese 地方 (dei⁶ fong¹) and 位 (wai6-2). Cognate to Papiamentu lugá.

semantic loan

Agora Macau nã tẽ lugá parcá carro

These days there is no space in Macau to park a car


saiám

From Malay sayang (“what a pity; to regret, to miss”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sayaŋ (“too bad! it’s a pity! what a shame!”). Compare Malaysian and Singaporean English sayang.

der

churâ saiám Macau


fonçám

From a dialectal variant of Portuguese função, possibly influenced by French fonction.

assistí fonçám


façám

Borrowed from Cantonese 花生 (faa¹ sang¹).

Já comprâ unga chuchupa di façám


fluquêro

English fluke + -êro. Compare Cantonese 符碌 (fu⁶ luk¹).


fóquei

Borrowed from Cantonese 夥記 /伙记 (fo² gei³). Alternative form likely derives from the same source as English foki.


siára

head

siára (plural siára-siára, masculine sium)

From Portuguese senhora, apparently influenced by Afro-Portuguese and/or Kristang.

Siára-siára quelóra comprâ sôm têm qui chipi-cherâ tudo ancuza

When women go shopping they look at everything in detail

Siara já intrâ, iou-sa bôlo já ficá vantú

Vôs-sa siara sâm bêm di astrevida


bôlo batê-pau

batê-pau derives from the motion traditionally used to make mooncakes - by hitting (batê) a wooden stick (pau) on the table, the stick being the traditional wooden mooncake mold.

Bôlo batê-pau sâm dóci.


sutate

Apparently of Japanese origin. If so, likely borrowed from Japanese すったて (suttate), a dish from Shirakawa prepared by mixing stone-ground soybeans with a miso and soy-sauce-based broth.

minchi burifado co sutate


amanhâm

Qui saiám! Amanhâm têm festâ mas iou nôm pódi vai.

What a pity! There’ll be a party tomorrow but I can’t go.


divera

falâ divera

Sâm divera!

Indeed! It's true! (literally, “It is the truth!”)


estrica

Ultimately from Dutch strijkijzer, likely via Indonesian setrika and/or Malay seterika.


chiripo

Apparently from Tamil, Malayalam [script needed] (cherripu), possibly via Malay or Indo-Portuguese.

clog (a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole and an open heel)


respondéncia

From a merger of Portuguese correspondência and archaic Portuguese respondência (“commercial profit”), from Latin respondentia.

der

Su sapeca têm respondéncia

Eu nã gosto respondência


tiro-grandi

Portuguese tiro (“shot”) + grandi (“big”), calque of English big shot.


nhunhum co nhonhônha

ladies and gentlemen
ladies and gentlemen


nhonhônha

Alternative form of nhonhonha: ladies, women


nhunhum

Coordinate term: nhonhonha


sôno

pegâ sono

to fall asleep, to pad out (literally, “to take sleep”)

quebrâ sono

to disturb somebody's sleep; to wake up (literally, “to break sleep”)

durmí unga sono erguí


lágri

lágri cacho-cacho

lágri di crocodilo

We worked hard for this place, with sweat, tears and blood, for its well-being and life.


ólo

From Portuguese olho, with many adverbial senses being a calque of Cantonese 眼. Doublet of oclo.

ólo batê-batê

to blink quickly (literally, “to hit the eyes”)

ólo enfiado

ólo fino

ólo di gaviám

lively eyes (literally, “eyes of a hawk”)

ólo sentado

comê qui ficâ ôlo sentado

to overeat, to gorge (literally, “to eat to the point of sitting eyes”)

ólo empatucado

ólo galado

ólo más grándí qui baríga

a gluttonous person who takes more than he can ingest (literally, “eyes bigger than one's belly”)

fichâ ôlo

pussâ ôlo

to attract attention (literally, “to pull eyes”)

rancâ ôlo

to stare frighteningly (literally, “to snatch eyes”)

bassâ ôlo

virâ ôlo

to roll one's eyes; in a very short amount of time

ólo bambú

ólo di figuêra

sapling, shoot, sprout (of plants and trees)


ôlo

Alternative form of ólo: eyes; shoot, sprout


maquista

Alteration of macaísta, reducing /kɐ.i/ or /ka.i/ to /ki/. By surface analysis, Macau + -ista.

maquista chapado

Macanese (descendant of mixed Portuguese-Chinese heritage)


Macau-filo

head

Macau-filo (plural Macau-filo-filo or Macau-filo-fila, feminine Macau-fila)

Macau-filo-filo (plural)
Macau-filo-fila (plural)
Macau-fila (feminine)

Possibly a calque of Cantonese 澳門仔 /澳门仔 (literally “Macau son”), possibly inspired in usage by 香港仔 (hoeng¹ gong² zai², “Hongkonger”, literally “Hong Kong son”).

calque

Iou sâm Macau-filo

Macanese (native of Macau, especially those born and raised in Macau)


quiança

From Portuguese criança. For /kr/ → /k/, compare quiada and isquevê.

Acunga quiança tâ churâ


quiada

From Portuguese criada, feminine form of criado. For /kr/ → /k/, compare quiança, isquevê, and maquiâ.

quiada já sai

the maid isn't working here anymore (literally, “the maid has left”)

elâ na rabicho di quiada


puliça

Ultimately from Latin polītīa, probably through Portuguese polícia and the colloquial slang form puliça.

puliça-môro

Indian soldier formerly recruited from Goa, Damao and Diu to serve in Macao's police force

puliça pau

(historical) policeman carrying a wooden stick; policeman stick

Puliça prendê êle


chúcho

Either borrowed from Malay cucok (“to poke”) or a clipping of chuchumeca. Doublet of chuchú. Semantically, compare English poke one's nose into.


chuchumeca

chuchú (“to poke”) or chúcho (“interfering, nosy”) + English maker.

com

Quelora, ficá careca, vôs nunca bom chuchuméca.

When you grow bald, don't be a troublemaker.

busybody, gossiper, chatterbox, troublemaker


parám

Borrowed from Malay parang (“short, heavy, straight-edged knife or machete”).

bor+

cleaver, butcher's knife (rectangular knife, commonly used in kitchens in Macau)


missó

>? Portuguese: missô

Borrowed from Japanese 味噌 (miso). First recorded in the Ou-Mun Kei-Leok published 1751. Possibly entered Macanese via the Japanese Catholic population who settled in the Pátio do Espinho during the 17th and 18th centuries.

any kind of savoury paste used in dishes


miçó

Alternative form of missó: miso, soybean paste


chili-missó

chili paste, chili sauce (spicy Chinese condiment prepared with chile, vinegar and soybean paste)


missó cristám

Literally, “Christian/Catholic miso”. Speculated by some that because the miso used is different to the Japanese variety, it was considered pagan.

Macanese dish made with a base of soybean paste, minced pork, and saffron


cristám

From Portuguese cristão. Linguistic senses an ellipsis of língu cristám.

cristám-nôvo

adult Chinese convert to Catholicism (literally, “new Catholic”)

papiâ cristám

papiâ cristám


greza

corê greza

to go to multiple churches on Maundy Thursday (literally, “to run church(es)”)

Nôs véla-véla têm-qui cubrí dol pa vai greza.

We old ladies have to cover our heads with a veil when we go to church.


mám-di-buda

Calque of Cantonese 佛手 (fat⁶ sau²). Literally, “hand of Buddha”.

Buddha's hand; fingered citron (Citrus medica var. sarcodactylus)


atachamento

Most likely borrowed from English attachment, or some now-obsolete Portuguese descendant of French attachement.


falânpám

Apparently borrowed from English frying pan.


faitiám

Borrowed from Cantonese 快艇 (faai³ teng⁵).

speedboat (light, speedy boat, used for transporting goods and people)


favôr

favour (instance of voluntarily assisting someone)


paché

Borrowed from Cantonese (一)把遮 ((jat¹) baa² ze¹, “an umbrella”, literally “one classifier for objects held using handles umbrella”).

Na básso di sól fórti amestê abrí paché

Under a strong sun, it is necessary to open a parasol


pacfanista

Cantonese 白粉 (baak⁶ fan², “heroin”, literally “white powder”) + -ista (“agent noun suffix”), probably influenced by Cantonese derivations such as 白粉仔 (baak⁶ fan² zai²) and 白粉友 (baak⁶ fan² jau⁵⁻²).

suffix

drug addict (person with a chemical or psychological dependency on drugs)


iam-chá

Borrowed from Cantonese 飲茶 /饮茶 (jam² caa⁴).

bor+

yum cha (Chinese meal served between breakfast and lunchtime, usually featuring dim sum)


chanquêm

Borrowed from Cantonese 巡警 (ceon⁴ ging²), borrowing the now-obsolete sense of "police officer".


hám-chói

Borrowed from Cantonese 鹹菜 /咸菜 (haam⁴ coi³, “pickle”, literally “salty vegetable”).


hirói

From Portuguese herói, from Latin hērōs, from Ancient Greek ἥρως (hḗrōs, “demi-god, hero”), from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, protect”)


hortelám

From Portuguese hortelão. Compare modern Portuguese hortelã (“mint”).


hortelám di sopa

Literally, “soup mint”. Referred to as such due to its common usage in soups in Macanese cuisine, in addition to various other dishes.

chá di hortelám di sopa


sôr

sôr pingado di testa


hortelám malavar

Literally, “Malabar mint”, possibly due to this species growing in the region of Malabar.

Anisochilus carnosus
Anisochilus carnosus

thick-leaved lavender (Anisochilus carnosus)


hotê

Probably from Portuguese hotel, from French hôtel, from Latin hospitāle.

Êle falâ amanhâm vai Hotê Lisboa dále dôs mám.

He says that tomorrow he will go to Hotel Lisboa to gamble.


laissí

red packet, lai see (a monetary gift which is given during holidays or special occasions)


pisidénte

From Portuguese presidente. For R-dropping, compare isquevê, quiança, and also pisente (“present”).

Olâ Pisidénte


siviço

From Portuguese serviço. Likely entered Macanese relatively early, given the R-dropping.

Já chegâ tarde vai siviço

trabalo siviço


copo-copo

copo-copo tâ aguâ

alegre como côpo-côpo na primavera na dia de sol

happy as a butterfly on a sunny day in spring


vassôra

vassôra pena

feather duster with rattan handle (literally, “feather brush”)

vassôra bambú

stiff broom made from vine or bamboo strips (literally, “bamboo broom”)

vassôra côco

brush made from coconut fibre (literally, “coconut brush”)

pegâ vassôra-pena dále quiança

to beat a child with a feather duster (literally, “to beat a child with a feather brush”)


chávi

From Portuguese chave, from Old Galician-Portuguese chave, from Latin clāvis, from Proto-Italic *klāwis (“bolt, lock, bar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂u-.

key (object that opens and closes a lock)

key (object that is inserted into a device and rotated to activate it)


tifim

Borrowed from English tiffin, possibly via Indo-Portuguese, given the prevalence of the term in Indian English.


faichista

faichi (“chopstick”) + -ista. Related to the rules of fan-tan, where a player uses a rod shaped like a chopstick to play the game.


restrate

Portuguese raiz (“root”) + trate (“lotus”).


jóvi

From Portuguese jovem or a de-nasalized variant. For loss of final nasal consonant, compare Galician xove.

Nôs nunca-sâm como acunga jovi-jóvi; nôs sâm chacha vêla-ia, sâm nunca?

We are not like those youngsters; we are old ladies already, aren't we?


chaminica

small teacup with no handle, used in Chinese restaurants

clay dish formerly used as a mold for homemade cakes


xiripo

Alternative form of chiripo: clog, clogs


bafo cumprido

Calque of Cantonese 長氣 /长气 (coeng⁴ hei³, literally “long air”).

calque

(idiomatic) someone who talks excessively and repetitively; chatterbox


queique

large, heavy spiced fruitcake soaked in brandy, usually served at Christmas and in general at all important Macanese parties


cachôro

From Portuguese cachorro (“puppy; dog”). Adjectival senses of unclear origin.

cachôro-china

dog whose bark is worse than its bite (literally, “Chinese dog”)

cachôro-fêmea

cachôro morto

cachôro-doido

suzo di cachôro

sôm-cachôro

dish made by using up odds and ends in the kitchen; dog dish


fijám

fijám-vemêlo

fijám-frade

fijám-chicote

Chinese long bean (literally, “whip bean”)

(literally, “He who has a king in his stomach cannot make way for a bean”)


corn-star

(small) cake made with corn starch or cornflour


jêto

From Portuguese jeito, from Old Galician-Portuguese geito, from a Vulgar Latin *iectus, alteration of Latin iactus.


calçám

From a merger of Portuguese calça (“trousers”) and calção (“shorts”).

calça-moura

light trousers worn by men at home or in bed

calçám cumprido


taufufá

Borrowed from Cantonese 豆腐花 (dau⁶ fu⁶ faa¹).

bor+

tofu pudding (cold tofu served with a syrup made of rock sugar and ginger)


tancá

Borrowed from Cantonese 蜑家 or 蛋家 (daan⁶ gaa¹, dang⁶ gaa¹).

small Chinese rowing boat, normally with no canvas cover

(derogatory) people living on these boats


tancarêro

tancá + -êro. Intrusive -r- due to hypercorrected form tancar.


tancarêra

tancá + -êra. Intrusive -r- due to hypercorrected form tancar.

Nhonha na jinela
Cô fula mogarim,
Sua mãe tancarera
Seu pai canarim.
Girl at the window
With a jasmine flower,
Her mother a boatwoman
Her father a Goan.

female equivalent of tancarêro: boatwoman


tapilu

Borrowed from Cantonese 打邊爐 /打边炉 (daa² bin¹ lou⁴).

hot pot (meal in which the food is brought to the table raw and then boiled in a communal pot on a special burner, called steamboat)


maquiaçám

From Portuguese malcriação, or a univerbation of Portuguese má criação, literally “bad nursing”. Compare Spanish malcriar (“to spoil”), malcriado (“spoiled”). Related to quiança and quiada, also displaying /kr/ → /k/.

univerbation

fazê maquiaçám

to behave spoiledly (literally, “to do spoiledness”)


dóci

dóci camalenga

dóci vestido

selection of decorated sweets given to the guests at a christening or wedding; dressed sweets

visitido como dóci di mui

very well-dressed; dressed like plum candy


candia

sandê candia

candia cera


sapeca fêmea

(idiomatic, possibly derogatory) easy money, money gained through dishonest means


fluquice

Qui fluquice!

a good move made by mere chance, stroke of luck


estopôr

Uncertain. Possibly from Portuguese estupor (“stupor”).

Êle qui estopôr!


pêsse

pêsse-cucús

pêsse-dorado

Acunga-quanto pêsse-pêsse sâm di estunga pescadô.


máno

Presumably from Portuguese mano. Sense 3 (especially with chomâ) possibly also a semantic loan from Cantonese 大佬 (daai⁶ lou²).

semantic loan

Passado más quánto ano, quim logo chomá êle mano?

After all these years, who will call him the boss?


vánda

Likely from Portuguese banda (“band, stripe”), with alternation of /b/ and /v/.

pa estunga vánda

vánda di trás

otrunga vánda

Êle já lugâ ung'a casa na vánda di Lilau

He rented a house in Lilau (literally, “He rented a house on the side of Lilau”)


pacapiu

Borrowed from Cantonese 白鴿票 /白鸽票 (baak⁶ gaap³⁻² biu¹, literally “white pigeon ticket”).


porquéro

From Portuguese porqueiro. By surface analysis, porco + -éro. Compare Spanish porquero.


malau

Borrowed from Cantonese 馬騮 /马骝 (maa⁵ lau¹).


chuchupa

Já comprâ unga chuchupa di façám

cone made from newspaper to wrap peanuts or roasted chestnuts


bunitéza

Qui buniteza!

Andâ-cá, bunitéza!

Êle tâ andâ cô unga bunitéza, êle-sa siara tâ vai dále di bem!

He is always with a pretty girl, his wife is going to give him a proper beating!


boboriça

Portuguese bobo + -riça. Origin of suffix uncertain.

Nê-bôm papiâ boboriça!

Já olâ seléa boboriça?

Have you ever seen this kind of nonsense?


nuviléro

Possibly from Portuguese novilheiro (“calf-fighter”) (cf. Spanish novillero), with a semantic shift due to Portuguese novidade (“news”) and more distantly Latin novellus (“new; novel”). By surface analysis, Portuguese novo + -éro.

surf

person who likes to spread and know about news


balichám

→ English: balichao

→ Portuguese: balichão

Borrowed from Malay belacan or older variants balacan, balacang. Possibly reinforced by cognate Cantonese 馬拉盞 /马拉盏 (maa⁵ laai¹ zaan²). Alternatively, from Portuguese baleia (“whale”), but this is less likely, both semantically and phonologically.

B-A-ba, primêro letra,
L-I-li divinhaçan;
Quim querê sabe minha nome
Botá ôlo na chan.
Sã Balichan.
B-A-ba, the first letter,
L-I-li guessing;
Whoever wants to know my name
Put your eye on the floor.
It's balicham.

balichao (savoury condiment prepared with very small, dried shrimp or krill)

porco balichám tamarinho

Macanese dish prepared with pork, tamarind and balichám


vegónha

From Portuguese vergonha, with R-dropping (compare siviço).

Qui vegónha!

Ilôtro nôm têm vegónha êles


tambrinho

Dissimilation of tamarinho, either internally in Macanese or via Portuguese tambarino or a similar variant.


naçám

envegonhâ naçám

Masqui seza preto, sam nossa naçam.

Even though we are black, that is our race.

nation, race (group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity)


cabéça

From Portuguese cabeça. Sense 3 most likely a semantic loan from Cantonese 頭 /头.

cabéça-di-bonzo

soup prepared in a bain-marie using the skin of a winter gourd (literally, “head of monk”)

cabéça-di-vento

forgetful, head in the clouds (literally, “head of wind/air”)

cabéça-di-cobra

trafficker of illegal immigrants (literally, “head of snake”)

quebrâ cabéça

to dwell on one topic; to search for a solution to a problem (literally, “to break head”)

cabéça di atum

cabéça-grandi

innovator; ringleader (literally, “big head”)

cabéça-di-cúli

stevedore at the docks and markets responsible for a team of coolies (literally, “head of coolie(s)”)

cabéça-di-hui

person who chairs and presides over the meetings of the hui

cabéça-di-lorcha

captain of a boat (literally, “head of lorcha”)


sabola

From Portuguese cebola. Compare Kabuverdianu sabóla.


tábu

From Portuguese tábua. For word-final /ua/ → /u/, compare águ, língu.

tâbu di istricâ rópa


quachi

Alternative form of quachí: (watermelon) seeds consumed as a snack


taucó

Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis
Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis

asparagus bean, yardlong bean, Chinese long bean (Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis)


tagalám

Apparently from obsolete dialectal Portuguese tagalhão, possibly related to tagalho (“portion”). Further etymology uncertain.


chicú

Borrowed from Cantonese 慈姑 (ci⁴ gu¹, “arrowhead, Sagittaria sagittifolia”), although semantically closer to (and possibly influenced by) Japanese 慈姑 (kuwai, “Sagittaria trifolia”).

cog

arrowhead (Sagittaria trifolia), particularly its tuber


nhame chicú

Alternative form of chicú: arrowhead tuber


nhim

Possibly a diminutive of Portuguese menina, ultimately from Old Galician-Portuguese meninha, with possible metathesis.

Coordinate term: siára

formal address for young girls, single women and lowly women of a certain age: young lady, miss


brêdo

From obsolete Portuguese bredo (“Amaranthus herb”). Compare Kristang bredo.

champurâ vaca com brêdo

Sã ramendá aporóna,
Cartá pinga vendê brêdo.
She appears to be an ordinary woman,
carrying baskets of vegetables for sale.

brêdo vaca-vaca

selection of cheap, poor quality vegetables


assésta

durmí assésta

to take a nap (literally, “to sleep nap”)


ach'á

a Muslim, especially an Indian, Pakistani or otherwise South Asian Muslim


môro

From Portuguese mouro (“Moor”). Compare Spanish moro.

môro-chut

puliça-môro

Indian soldier formerly recruited from Goa, Damao and Diu to serve in Macao's police force

carí di móro

(by extension) any non-Christian Indian (person from India)


árve

árve di panha

árve S. José

weeping fig, Ficus wightiana (literally, “St. Joseph's tree”)

árve pagode

banyan fig, Ficus restusa (literally, “pagoda tree”)

arve di péscu


múchi

Almost certainly borrowed from Japanese 餅 (mochi). Unclear whether alteration of the first vowel may have been influenced by Okinawan 餅 (mūchī) and/or a dialectal form in Japanese, or it may have happened internally in Macanese; compare fucinho and Portuguese focinho (“snout”).

mochi (rice cake made from glutinous rice and filled with desiccated coconut, roasted beans and sesame)


caxám

Presumably from Portuguese caixão, from caixa (“box”) + -ão (“augmentative suffix”). By surface analysis, caixa + -ám.


pensám

Êle tâ comê pensám

(literally, “He is eating retirement pension”)


pilizám

Probably from Portuguese pelejão. By surface analysis, pilizâ (“to argue, to dispute”) + -ám.


pilizóna

Probably from obsolete and/or low colloquial Portuguese pelejona. By surface analysis, pilizâ + -óna.


amuiróna

amui (“girl”) + -róna (“feminine augmentative suffix”).


aporóna

apó (“elderly Chinese woman”) + -róna (“feminine augmentative suffix”).

(possibly derogatory) large, heavy, ordinary middle-aged Chinese woman


ispêlo

From Portuguese espêlho, from Old Galician-Portuguese espelho, from Vulgar Latin speclum, syncopated form of Latin speculum.

pegâ ispêlo

to take the mirror, to look at oneself in the mirror

Nôm têm ispêlo na casa?


cambrám

From Portuguese camarão and obsolete cambrão. For dissimilation of -mar- → -mbr-, compare also tambrinho.

bolo di cambrám

shrimp dumpling (literally, “shrimp cake”)

cambrám mizóna


camiám

From Portuguese camião (“lorry”), from French camion.

sentâ camiám

to take the bus (literally, “to sit bus”)


uncento

Univerbation of unga + Portuguese cento.

uncento fora

Tâ papiá uncento di parabiça

Tâ papiâ um cento pantominice

(figurative) many, a quantity, a lot, a bunch


ma-língu

Probably from Portuguese má-língua. By surface analysis, Portuguese má (“bad”) + língu (“language”).

surf

Vôs sã bem di ma língu


inventaçám

From Portuguese inventação, variant of invenção.


pó-bolacho

breadcrumbs or cookie crumbs intended for batter and breading


pó-brânco

Literally, “white powder”. Calque of Cantonese 白粉 (baak⁶ fan²).


curum

curum di galinha


leám

leám na cajola


floristia

Possibly from Portuguese flostria, folestria or folastria, with metathesis and/or possible contamination by Portuguese flor (“flower”). Portuguese flostria further derived from Old French folastre or folastrie (modern French folâtre).


fula-papaia

canje fula papaia


bifalhada

From Portuguese bifalhada (“big portion of steak”), augmentative form of bife.


gúni

Borrowed from Malay guni and/or English gunny, ultimately from Sanskrit गोणी (goṇī́, “sack”), from Dravidian.


raspiáti

Uncertain. Variously speculated to be from either French rapiat (“avid; greedy”) or Indo-Portuguese rajputo, rasbuto, resbuto, reisbuto, a military caste in ancient Gujarat, ultimately from Sanskrit राजपुत्र (rājaputra). Semantically, the derogatory senses may have come about when the resbutos, after the Moors took over their Gujarati kingdom, turned to banditry, and were referred to as "great thieves and tyrants".

Raspiáti si sã querê
Tud'ora mostrá grandéza,
Sã têm qui onçôm gemê,
Pinchado na su pobréza.
The pauper who always goes about
Showing off grandeur,
Will end up suffering,
Cast down in his poverty.


péscu

From Portuguese pêssego, from Old Galician-Portuguese pessego, from Latin persicum (“peach”), from Persia (“Persia”). Compare Kabuverdianu pésigu.

arve di péscu


babachai

Coordinate term: quiança