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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish carretilla
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iʎɐ
- Hyphenation: car‧re‧ti‧lha
Noun
carretilha f (plural carretilhas)
- (cooking) pastry cutter (also used in sewing)
- Synonyms: corta-massa, cortaderia, cortilha
- drill (used by blacksmiths)
- (Brazil, fishing) baitcaster
- Coordinate term: molinete
- (Brazil, colloquial, soccer) rainbow kick.
- Synonyms: lambreta, chapéu-mexicano, (Portugal) cabrito
References
- “carretilha”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “carretilha”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “carretilha”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “carretilha”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025