mascavado
Portuguese
Etymology
The past participle of mascavar, a corrupted form of menoscabar (“to despise”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /mas.kaˈva.du/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /maʃ.kaˈva.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /mas.kaˈva.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐʃ.kɐˈva.du/ [mɐʃ.kɐˈva.ðu]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐʃ.kɐˈba.du/ [mɐʃ.kɐˈβa.ðu]
- Hyphenation: mas‧ca‧va‧do
Participle
mascavado (feminine mascavada, masculine plural mascavados, feminine plural mascavadas)
- past participle of mascavar
Adjective
mascavado (feminine mascavada, masculine plural mascavados, feminine plural mascavadas)
- muscovado (unrefined brown sugar)
- adulterated
- incomprehensible
Descendants
- → English: muscovado
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