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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧fo
- Rhymes: -afu
Adjective
safo (feminine safa, masculine plural safos, feminine plural safas)
- (of a person) safe
- Synonyms: seguro, são, salvo
- (of an object) wore out
- Synonyms: gasto, desgastado
- (Brazil, slang, of a person) clever, witty
- Synonyms: esperto, sagaz
- free, having escaped
- Synonyms: livre, desimpedido, desprendido
- (nautical, of a vessel) freed from stranding
Noun
safo m (plural safos)
- (slang) handkerchief
- Synonym: lenço
Verb
safo
- first-person singular present indicative of safar
Ternate
Pronunciation
Noun
safo (Jawi سافو)
- a bowl
- a cup
References
- Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
West Makian
Etymology
Cognate with Ternate sahu (“warm”).
Pronunciation
Verb
safo
- (stative) to be warm
- (stative) to have a fever
- (stative) to ache, pain, hurt
- ti bodo isafo ― my stomach aches
- (stative) to be painful (due to a blow, etc.)
Conjugation
References
- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary, Pacific linguistics
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics