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cabaça.

gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)

6 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/kaˈba.sɐ/Brazil/kɐˈba.sɐ/Portugal[kɐˈβa.sɐ]Portugal/kɐˈba.sɐ/Portugal, Southern
  1. gourd (cultivated plant, used as vegetable or container)

    feminine
  2. calabash

    feminine
  3. bong (for smoking marijuana)

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese cabaaça, from earlier *cabalaça, possibly metathised from local latin *calapatia via Paleo-Hispanic. Cognate with Galician cabaza, Spanish calabaza and Catalan carabassa.

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