gibão

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Portuguese[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Old Italian gippone, giuppone, from Old Spanish aljuba, from Arabic الْجُبَّة (al-jubba). Doublet of aljuba.

Noun[edit]

gibão m (plural gibões)

  1. jerkin (a type of close-fitting collarless jacket)

Etymology 2[edit]

From French gibbon.

Noun[edit]

gibão m (plural gibões)

  1. gibbon (small ape of the family Hylobatidae)