nhame
Macanese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Portuguese inhame, from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
nhame
Derived terms edit
- nhamada
- nhame chicú (“arrowhead tuber”)
References edit
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#nhame
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “nhame”, 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 493
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: nha‧me
Noun edit
nhame m
- Misspelling of inhame.