tagalám
Macanese
editEtymology
editApparently from obsolete dialectal Portuguese tagalhão, possibly related to tagalho (“portion”). Further etymology uncertain.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittagalám
- morning coat, dress coat
- Synonyms: rabo-barata, rabo-di-barata
References
edit- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tagalhão, tagalhã”, 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 539
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#r
- https://dicionario.priberam.org/tagalho