auábe

Macanese

Alternative forms

• auabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 鮑 (awabi).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈwa.bi/

Noun

auábe

1. abalone

References

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “auabi”, 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 296
• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#a