pipoca
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Pipoca
Portuguese
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Etymology 1
Unknown. Sources are unanimous in mentioning a borrowing from Old Tupi pipoka, which is unnatested.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
- Hyphenation: pi‧po‧ca
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (cooking) popcorn
- 1865, Bernardo Guimarães, “A orgia dos duendes”, in Poesias diversas, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 269:
- Junto d’elle um vermelho diabo / Que sahíra do antro das phócas, / Pendurado n’um páo pelo rabo, / No borralho torrava pipócas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1875, José de Alencar, O Sertanejo, volume 2, Rio de Janeiro: B. L. Garnier, page 175:
- só tinha que não podia ver cabeção de cacondê que não ficasse logo como pipoca na frigideira!
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- small skin boil
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pústula
- tapeworm cyst embedded in meat
- Synonyms: canjica, canjiquinha, cisticerco, cisto, pipoquinha
- (Brazil, colloquial, pathology) avian pox (disease caused by Avipoxvirus)
- Synonyms: bouba aviária, caroço
- (Brazil, botany) candelabra tree (Senna didymobotrya)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Spanish: pipoca
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
pipoca
- inflection of pipocar:
References
- ^ “pipoca”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- ^ “pipoca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- ^ “pipoca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
- ^ “pipoca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”).
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (Bolivia) popcorn
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita