tambâ

See also: tamba and tambā

Macanese

Alternative forms

  • tambar (modern hypercorrection)

Etymology

Possibly Indonesian tambal (“to patch”) + -â.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tamˈbɐ/, /tamˈba/

Verb

tambâ

  1. to patch, to repair
    tambâ calça ― to patch up trousers
  2. to cover, to fill in
    tambâ buraco di rua ― to fill in the hole in the street

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tambar”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 540

Further reading

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.