labitâ
Macanese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUncertain. Suggested by some to be of Portuguese origin.[1] Possibly related to lampita (“busybody, a nosy person”).
Verb
editlabitâ
References
edit- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “labitar”, 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 463
- ^ https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm