chuva

See also: chůva

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese chuva.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.va/

Noun

chuva

  1. rain
    chuva filo-filoa drizzle (literally, “sons rain”)
    chuva fino-finolight rain (literally, “very thin rain”)
    chuva pedrahail (literally, “(hail)stone rain”)
    Não é de costume ter chuva em outubro
    It's not usual to have rain in October

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese chuvia, from Latin pluvia. Compare Galician choiva, Spanish lluvia.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.vɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈʃu.va/
 

  • Audio (Portugal):(file)
  • Rhymes: -uvɐ
  • Hyphenation: chu‧va

Noun

chuva f (plural chuvas)

  1. rain

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcuba
  • Kabuverdianu: tchuva, txuba, txuva
  • Macanese: chuva
  • Saramaccan: tjúba

References

  • chuva” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913