fumaça
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Portuguese
Etymology
From fumo + -aça, from Old Galician-Portuguese fumo, from Latin fūmus (“smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -asɐ
- Hyphenation: fu‧ma‧ça
Noun
fumaça f (plural fumaças)
- smoke (particles and vapor/vapour given off by burning material)
- Synonym: fumo
- 2024 September 16, Pedro Ladeira, “Cena de Brasília: Fumaça se espalha por Brasília e fogo se aproxima da administração do Parque Nacional”, in Folha de S.Paulo:
- A fumaça dos incêndios de grandes proporções no Parque Nacional de Brasília se espalhou pela Asa Norte, bairro de Brasília próximo à área, na manhã desta segunda-feira (16).
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