nhá
Portuguese
Etymology
Shortened form of sinhá, itself a shortened form of senhora.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈɲa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈɲa/
- Rhymes: -a
Noun
nhá f (plural nhás)
- (obsolete) an affectionate term of address given by African nannies to young women
- Synonyms: iaiá, nhanhá
See also
Further reading
- “nhá”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Vietic *s-ɲaːʔ (“to chew; to masticate”).
Verb
- (especially of an old person) to chew (carefully, usually something hard to eat); to masticate
- (telephony) to ring someone and then immediately hang up so that they'll call you back and get charged for you
- Synonym: nhá máy
Etymology 2
Particle
nhá
- (colloquial) alternative form of nhé