lacassá

Macanese edit

Alternative forms edit

laquessá

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Malay laksa.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /la.kaˈsa/

Noun edit

lacassá

rice vermicelli
sópa lacassá ― vermicelli soup

Usage notes edit

Nowadays most commonly used to describe Cantonese 米粉 (mai⁵ fan²), whence also the modern derivation mâi-fan.^[1]

References edit

^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “lacassá”, 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

Portuguese edit

Alternative forms edit

lequessá

Pronunciation edit

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /la.kaˈsa/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /lɐ.kɐˈsa/

Hyphenation: la‧cas‧sá

Numeral edit

lacassá m

(India) lakh (one hundred thousand)
Synonym: laque

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