tancá

See also: tanca

Macanese

Alternative forms

(hypercorrection) tancar

Etymology

Borrowed from Cantonese 蜑家 or 蛋家 (daan⁶ gaa¹, dang⁶ gaa¹).

Noun

tancá

small Chinese rowing boat, normally with no canvas cover
(derogatory) people living on these boats
Synonyms: (regular terms) tancarêro, tancarêra

Usage notes

Where the Cantonese term describes the people living on the boats, the Macanese term generally only describes the boat itself.

Derived terms

tancarêro, tancarêra

References

https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#t
Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “tancá”, 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 541

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