Macanese edit

Etymology edit

Portuguese raiz (root) +‎ trate (lotus).[1]

Noun edit

restrate

  1. lotus root

References edit

  1. ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “restrate”, 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 524

Further reading edit