mucama
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Portuguese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
- Hyphenation: mu‧ca‧ma
Noun[edit]
mucama f (plural mucamas)
- (Brazil) housemaid; servant
- Synonym: criado
- 1881, Machado de Assis, O Alienista[1], section VI, page 46:
- —Está, sinhá, respondia a mucama de cócoras no chão, está boa. Sinhá vira um bocadinho. Assim. Está muito boa.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Brazil, historical) domestic slave
- Synonym: macuma
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Portuguese mucama, from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mucama f (plural mucamas)
- maid
- chambermaid
- a. 1964, Felisberto Hernández, El pájaro asustado:
- Al llegar a mi hotel hice llamar a la mucama y le pedí que me trajera mis zapatillas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “mucamo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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