jangada

From Portuguese jangada.

• IPA^(key): /ʒəŋˈɡɑdə/, /d͡ʒəŋˈɡɑdə/

jangada (plural jangadas)

1. A traditional wooden sailing raft of northern Brazil.
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 143:

     We went out into the bay on Paulo's jangada and I dived into the clear water and struck off some distance, then floated and looked back at the handsome boat.

Borrowed from Portuguese jangada, from Malayalam ചങ്ങാടം (caṅṅāṭaṁ).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒəŋˈɡa.ðə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒaŋˈɡa.ða]

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jangada f (plural jangades)

1. an improvised raft made from the wreckage of a sailing ship
2. jangada

• rai

• “jangada”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. jangada

• “jangada”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Malayalam ചങ്ങാടം (caṅṅāṭaṁ),^[1] from Sanskrit संघाट (saṃghāṭa).

• Hyphenation: jan‧ga‧da

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. raft (flat makeshift watercraft)

   Synonym: balsa

• → Catalan: jangada
• → English: jangada
• → Spanish: jangada

Borrowed from Portuguese jangada.

• IPA^(key): /xanˈɡada/ [xãŋˈɡa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: jan‧ga‧da

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. a kind of sailing raft found in northern Brazil

• “jangada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024