mucama

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

mucamba

Etymology

Borrowed from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /muˈkɐ̃.mɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /muˈkɐ.ma/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /muˈkɐ.mɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /muˈka.mɐ/

Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
Hyphenation: mu‧ca‧ma

Noun

mucama f (plural mucamas)

(Brazil) housemaid; servant
Synonym: criado
- 1881, Machado de Assis, O Alienista‎, section VI, page 46:
  —Está, sinhá, respondia a mucama de cócoras no chão, está boa. Sinhá vira um bocadinho. Assim. Está muito boa.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)
(Brazil, historical) domestic slave
Synonym: macuma

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese mucama, from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /muˈkama/
Rhymes: -ama
Syllabification: mu‧ca‧ma

Noun

mucama f (plural mucamas)

maid
chambermaid
- a. 1964, Felisberto Hernández, El pájaro asustado:
  Al llegar a mi hotel hice llamar a la mucama y le pedí que me trajera mis zapatillas.
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Related terms

mucamo

Further reading

“mucamo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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