máno

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mano"

Macanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Presumably from Portuguese mano. Sense 3 (especially with chomâ) possibly also a semantic loan from Cantonese 大佬 (daai6 lou2).

Noun

máno (feminine mána)

  1. older brother, oldest brother
  2. oldest son
  3. (idiomatic) boss
    Passado más quánto ano, quim logo chomá êle mano?
    After all these years, who will call him the boss?

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.