chuva

See also: chůva

Macanese

Etymology

From Portuguese chuva.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.va/

Noun

chuva

1. rain

   chuva filo-filo ― a drizzle (literally, “sons rain”)

   chuva fino-fino ― light rain (literally, “very thin rain”)

   chuva pedra ― hail (literally, “(hail)stone rain”)

   Nunca costumado têm chuva Otubro

   It's not usual to have rain in October

Derived terms

• cai chuva

References

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#c

Portuguese

chuva

Alternative forms

• chuiva (dated, dialectal)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese chuvia (“rain”), from Latin pluvia (“rain”), from pluvius (“rainy”), from pluit (“it is raining”), from Proto-Indo-European. Cognate with Galician choiva, Spanish lluvia, Catalan pluja, Occitan pluèja, French pluie, Italian pioggia and Romanian ploaie.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.vɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.vɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.va/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.vɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈʃu.vɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃu.bɐ/ [ˈt͡ʃu.βɐ]

• Hyphenation: chu‧va

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Noun

chuva f (plural chuvas)

1. rain

Derived terms

• ao preço da chuva
• chapéu-de-chuva
• chuva ácida
• chuva de estrelas
• chuva de meteoritos
• chuva de meteoros
• chuva dourada
• chuva miudinha
• chuva molha-tolos
• chuvada
• chuvisco
• chuvoso
• guarda-chuva

 

Related terms

• chover
• pluvial
• pluvioso

 

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: tcuba
• Kabuverdianu: tchuva, txuba, txuva
• Macanese: chuva
• Saramaccan: tyuba