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Macanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay laksa.
Pronunciation
Noun
lacassá
- rice vermicelli
- sópa lacassá ― vermicelli soup
Usage notes
- Nowadays most commonly used to describe Cantonese 米粉 (mai5 fan2), whence also the modern derivation mâi-fan.[1]
References
- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “lacassá”, 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 463
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Numeral
lacassá m
- (India) lakh (one hundred thousand)
- Synonym: laque