pipoca
Portuguese
editEtymology 1
editFrom Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pi‧po‧ca
Noun
editpipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (cooking) popcorn
- Synonym: pororoca
- small skin boil
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pústula
- tapeworm cyst embedded in meat
- Synonyms: canjica, canjiquinha, cisticerco, cisto, pipoquinha
- (Brazil, colloquial, pathology) avian pox (disease caused by Avipoxvirus)
- Synonyms: bouba aviária, caroço
- (Brazil, botany) candelabra tree (Senna didymobotrya)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Spanish: pipoca
Further reading
edit- “pipoca”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “pipoca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “pipoca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “pipoca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Etymology 2
editVerb
editpipoca
- inflection of pipocar:
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”), from Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Noun
editpipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (Bolivia) popcorn
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
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- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Cooking
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese colloquialisms
- pt:Pathology
- pt:Botany
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- pt:Foods
- pt:Worms
- pt:Viral diseases
- pt:Diseases
- Spanish terms borrowed from Portuguese
- Spanish terms derived from Portuguese
- Spanish terms derived from Old Tupi
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- Bolivian Spanish