maloca
English edit
Etymology edit
From Brazilian Portuguese maloca, from Spanish maloca (“raid, attack”), from Mapudungun malocán (“to fight”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ma‧lo‧ca
Noun edit
maloca (plural malocas)
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
- Hyphenation: ma‧lo‧ca
Etymology 1 edit
From Spanish maloca (“raid, attack”), from Mapudungun malocán (“to fight”).
Noun edit
maloca f (plural malocas)
- a maloca
- (Brazil, figuratively) shack, hut
- (Brazil, by extension) affectionate term for a home or habitation
- (Brazil) hideout
- Synonym: esconderijo
- (Brazil) an Indian settlement
- (Brazil) scum (an untrustworthy group of people)
- (Northeastern Brazil) livestock that cowboys gather during vaquejadas and take to a corral
- (Brazil) livestock that grazes on certain points of a field
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
maloca
Spanish edit
Noun edit
maloca f (plural malocas)
Further reading edit
- “maloca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014