pastro
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Esperanto
Pronunciation
Noun
pastro (accusative singular pastron, plural pastroj, accusative plural pastrojn)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- ĉefpastro (“hierarch, high priest, pontiff”)
Macanese
Etymology
From Portuguese pássaro, although exact process of emergence of -t- unclear.
Pronunciation
Noun
pastro
- bird
- pastro tâ aguâ ― the bird is flying
- home di caçâ pastro ― bird catcher (literally, “man of catching bird”)
- nínho di pastro ― bird's nest; swallow's nest
References
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “pastro”, 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 507
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm