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Macanese
Etymology
Uncertain. Variously speculated to be from either French rapiat (“avid; greedy”) or Indo-Portuguese rajputo, rasbuto, resbuto, reisbuto, a military caste in ancient Gujarat, ultimately from Sanskrit राजपुत्र (rājaputra). Semantically, the derogatory senses may have come about when the resbutos, after the Moors took over their Gujarati kingdom, turned to banditry, and were referred to as "great thieves and tyrants".[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɾas.piˈa.ti/, /ɾaʃ.piˈa.ti/, /ɾas.piˈa.tɛ/
Noun
raspiáti (derogatory)
- pauper, a very poor person
Raspiáti si sã querê
Tud'ora mostrá grandéza,
Sã têm qui onçôm gemê,
Pinchado na su pobréza.- The pauper who always goes about
Showing off grandeur,
Will end up suffering,
Cast down in his poverty.
- scoundrel, rascal
Adjective
raspiáti (derogatory)
- poorly dressed
- mischievous, naughty, rascal
References
- ^ Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “raspiate”, 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 523
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