carvão

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Portuguese

 carvão on Portuguese Wikipedia
carvão (1)
carvão (2)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carvon, from Latin carbōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *ker (to burn). Doublet of carbono.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
  • Hyphenation: car‧vão

Noun

carvão m (plural carvões)

  1. coal
  2. charcoal
  3. smut (range of fungi that cause crop disease); fungus of the genus Ustilago