chiripo
Macanese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Apparently from Tamil, Malayalam [script needed] (cherripu), possibly via Malay or Indo-Portuguese.[1]
Noun edit
chiripo
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “chiripo”, 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 399
- ^ https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#chiripo