tancarêra
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Macanese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
tancá + -êra. Intrusive -r- due to hypercorrected form tancar.
Noun[edit]
tancarêra
- female equivalent of tancarêro: boatwoman
- 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.
- Girl at the window
Usage notes[edit]
- Appears to be more common than its masculine equivalent.
References[edit]
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_canarim
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tancareira”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 542