tourão

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

toirão

Etymology

From touro +‎ -ão (augmentative suffix).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /to(w)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /to(w)ˈɾɐ̃w̃/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /towˈɾɐ̃w̃/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /toˈɾɐ̃w̃/

Hyphenation: tou‧rão

Noun

tourão m (plural tourões)

Augmentative of touro
polecat (Mustela putorius, a mustelid of Eurasia)

Descendants

Spanish: turón

Further reading

“tourão” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

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