restrate

Macanese

Etymology

Portuguese raiz (“root”) +‎ trate (“lotus”).[1]

Noun

restrate

  1. lotus root

References
  1. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “restrate”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 524

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