tancarêra
Macanese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
edittancá + -êra. Intrusive -r- due to hypercorrected form tancar.
Noun
edittancarêra
- female equivalent of tancarêro: boatwoman
- Nhonha na jinela
Cô fula mogarim,
Sua mãe tancarera
Seu pai canarim.- Girl at the window
With a jasmine flower,
Her mother a boatwoman
Her father a Goan.
- Girl at the window
Usage notes
edit- Appears to be more common than its masculine equivalent.
References
edit- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_canarim
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tancareira”, 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 542