contrabando
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
contrabando m (plural contrabandos)
- contraband, smuggled goods (goods)
- smuggling (activity)
Related terms edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian contrabbando.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: con‧tra‧ban‧do
Noun edit
contrabando m (plural contrabandos)
- contraband (goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods)
- (uncountable) the practice of smuggling
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ “contrabando” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- ^ “contrabando” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From contrabanda, borrowed from Italian contrabando, from contra- + bando.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
contrabando m (plural contrabandos)
- contraband, smuggled goods (goods)
- smuggling (activity)
- bootleg, bootlegging
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “contrabando”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014