maloca
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.ˈlɔ.ka/
- Hyphenation: ma‧lo‧ca
Noun
maloca f (plural malocas)
- a maloca
- (Brazil, figuratively) shack, hut
- (Brazil, by extension) affectionate term for a home or habitation
- (Brazil) hideout
- Synonym: esconderijo
- (Brazil) an Indian settlement
- (Brazil) scum (an untrustworthy group of people)
- (Northeastern Brazil) livestock that cowboys gather during vaquejadas and take to a corral
- (Brazil) livestock that grazes on certain points of a field
Related terms
- maloqueiro
- malocar
Verb
maloca
- third-person singular present indicative of malocar
- second-person singular imperative of malocar
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