sapeca

English

Noun

sapeca (plural sapecas)

  1. Alternative form of sapek (“Vietnamese coin”)

Macanese

Etymology

Apparently Malay sa (“one”) +‎ Malay paku (“thread of one hundred pichi coins”). Originally described a round copper coin (hence sense 2), with a square hole in the centre, formerly used in China. Term formerly used jocularly to imitate Macanese,[1] however is now the most common term to refer to money, this development possibly being a (relatively old) semantic loan from Cantonese 錢／钱. Compare French sapèque, from the same Malay origin.

Noun

sapeca

  1. money[2]
    Iou nôm têm sapeca
    I don't have money
  2. coin

Derived terms
  • pataca (“currency of Macau”)

References
  1. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “sapeca”, 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 529
  2. https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /saˈpɛ.kɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /saˈpɛ.ka/

  • Hyphenation: sa‧pe‧ca

Adjective

sapeca m or f (plural sapecas)

  1. mischievous (causing mischief)

Noun

sapeca m or f by sense (plural sapecas)

  1. a mischievous child

Verb

sapeca

  1. inflection of sapecar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
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