ficâ

• ficá

From Portuguese ficar.

ficâ

1. to become, to turn, to go

   Ai! Qui grándi já ficâ estunga quiança, qui espigado!

   Wow! How tall this kid has become, how grown!

2. to be (in a certain state)
3. to remain
4. to be located
5. to live, to reside

   ficâ na Macau ― to live in Macau

• Often used with an adjective/past participle to express entering a certain state, e.g. ficâ durmido (“to fall asleep”, literally “to become asleep”), or ficâ murúm (“to sadden oneself”, literally “to become sad”).

• virâ ficâ (“to convert into, to transform into”)

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm