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Portuguese
Etymology 1
From Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (cooking) popcorn
- Synonym: pororoca
- 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
Descendants
Further reading
- “pipoca”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “pipoca”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “pipoca”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “pipoca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Etymology 2
Verb
pipoca
- inflection of pipocar:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”), from Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (Bolivia) popcorn
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita