chocalho

English

Etymology

Portuguese chocalho

Noun

chocalho (plural chocalhos)

  1. (music) A shaker (kind of musical instrument).

Galician

Noun

chocalho m (plural chocalhos, reintegrationist norm)

  1. reintegrationist spelling of chocallo

Further reading

  • “chocalho” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From choca +‎ -alho, from Old Galician-Portuguese choca, from Medieval Latin clocca (“bell”), from Gaulish *clocca, from imitative Proto-Indo-European *klak.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃoˈka.ʎu/, /ʃuˈka.ʎu/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃoˈka.ʎo/
 

  • Rhymes: -aʎu
  • Hyphenation: cho‧ca‧lho

Noun

chocalho m (plural chocalhos)

  1. bell, cowbell (a small bell worn by cows and other animals)
  2. (music) shaker
  3. rattle (baby's toy)
    Synonym: guizo
  4. (zoology) rattle (organ of an animal producing a rattling sound)
Derived terms
See also

Further reading

Etymology 2

Verb

chocalho

  1. first-person singular present indicative of chocalhar

Further reading

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