almofada

Attested since the 15th century. From Andalusian Arabic اَلْمُخَدَّة (al-muḵadda), from Arabic مِخَدَّة (miḵadda).

Cognate with Portuguese almofada, Spanish almohada and Maltese mħadda.

• IPA^(key): [almoˈfaðɐ]

almofada f (plural almofadas)

1. pillow

   Synonyms: cabezal, traveseiro

2. (dated) cushion
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a wool blanket, and if there are in house a pair of quilts, she should have one

   Synonym: coxín

• “almofada” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “almofada” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “almofada” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “almofada” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

From Andalusian Arabic اَلْمُخَدَّة (al-muḵadda), from Arabic مِخَدَّة (miḵadda). Cognate with Spanish almohada and Maltese mħadda.

• (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˌaɻ.mo.ˈfa.da/

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• Hyphenation: al‧mo‧fa‧da

almofada f (plural almofadas)

1. cushion (soft material in cloth bag)
2. (chiefly Portugal) pillow

   Synonym: travesseiro

   Ela pôs o seu dente debaixo da almofada.

   She put her tooth under her pillow.

• almofadar
• almofadado
• almofadinha (diminutive)

• almofada on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt