favela
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese favela.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]favela (plural favelas)
- A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil
- 2012, Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne, Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities:
- security forces in November of 2010 stormed one of the city's most notorious favelas, the complex of the Morro do Alemão in the northern zone of the city
- 2008, Cedar Lewisohn, Street Art, Foreword, page 8:
- The favela is now the model for most of the world's cities, as vast numbers of people continue to migrate to them in order to survive.
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[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]favela f (plural favelas)
- favela (a slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil)
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese favela.
Noun
[edit]favela m (definite singular favelaen, indefinite plural favelaer or favelaar, definite plural favelaene or favelaane)
- favela (a slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil)
Portuguese
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Etymology
[edit]The slum sense is named after the tree. The first favela was founded by veterans of the War of Canudos on Morro da Providência (Providence Hill). That hill was similar to a hill where a battle took place during the war, which had many favela trees. The name of the tree probably comes ultimately from a diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”). An alternative etymology may be favo + -ela.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: fa‧ve‧la
Noun
[edit]favela f (plural favelas)
- a tree of species Cnidoscolus quercifolius, native to northeastern Brazil
- Synonym: faveleira
- (Brazil) slum (dilapidated neighborhood)
- Synonyms: (Angola) musseque, (Brazil) morro, (Mozambique) caniço, (Portugal) bairro de lata
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “favela”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Romansch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin fabella, diminutive of fābula, or from a derivative of Vulgar Latin *fabellāre.
Noun
[edit]favela f (plural favelas)
Usage notes
[edit]Implies a strong emotional attachment. Used almost exclusively to refer to Romansch itself.
Synonyms
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Portuguese favela. Doublet of fabela.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]favela f (plural favelas)
- favela (a slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “favela”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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