brancarana
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom branca (“white woman”) + -rana (“similar”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
editbrancarana f (plural brancaranas, masculine brancarão or brancarrão, masculine plural brancarões or brancarrões)
- (Brazil, derogatory) light-skinned mulatta, a mixed-race woman who passes as white
Adjective
editbrancarana
Further reading
edit- “brancarana”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “brancarana”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “brancarana”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “brancarana”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Categories:
- Portuguese terms suffixed with -rana
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃nɐ
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐ̃nɐ/4 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐna
- Rhymes:Portuguese/ɐna/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Portuguese derogatory terms
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese adjective forms
- Portuguese hybridisms