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massa.

dough (a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈma.sɐ/Brazil/ˈma.sɐ/Portugal[ˈma.s̺ɐ]Northern, Portugal
  1. dough (a thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients)

    feminine
    massa de pão
  2. batter (a beaten mixture of flour and liquid)

    feminine
    massa de bolo
  3. pasta

    feminine
  4. a concentration of substance or tightly packed objects

    feminine
  5. mortar (mixture for bonding bricks)

    feminine
  6. multitude (a great mass of people)

    feminine
  7. mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume)

    feminine · uncountable
  8. money

    feminine · slang · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese massa, from Latin massa (“mass; dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”), from μάσσω (mássō, “to handle; to knead”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-.

adj/ˈma.sɐ/Brazil/ˈma.sɐ/Portugal[ˈma.s̺ɐ]Northern, Portugal
  1. cool (in fashion, part of or fitting the in-crowd)

    Brazil · feminine · informal · masculine
  2. great; amazing; awesome

    Brazil · feminine · informal · masculine
    Aprender línguas é muito massa!
Where this word comes from

From Old Galician-Portuguese massa, from Latin massa (“mass; dough”), from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”), from μάσσω (mássō, “to handle; to knead”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ǵ-.

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