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Malagasy
Participle
tojo
- met, come face to face with
Musi
Numeral
tojo
- seven
Portuguese
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *toju or similar; compare Spanish tojo, Asturian toxu, Galician toxo.
Pronunciation
Noun
tojo m (plural tojos)
- gorse; furze (Ulex europaeus, an evergreen shrub of Europe and northern Africa)
- Synonym: tojeira
Further reading
- “tojo”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
- “tojo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024
- “tojo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “tojo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “tojo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “tojo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
Etymology
From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *toju or similar; compare Portuguese tojo, Asturian toxu, Galician toxo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtoxo/
- Rhymes: -oxo
- Syllabification: to‧jo
Noun
tojo m (plural tojos)
- furze, gorse (shrub of genus Ulex)
- Synonym: guiri
Further reading