marrafa
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7 characters
Language
Portuguese
word origin
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marrafa is aPortuguesenoun. It means: mecha de cabelos retorcida e para cima e caída sobre a testa, semelhate à que usava Marrafi, o dançarino italiano que se apresentou em Lisboa em 1791 Pronounced /mɐ.ˈRa.fɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | marrafa |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /mɐ.ˈRa.fɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for marrafa is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /mɐ.ˈRa.fɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for marrafa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is marrafa, spelled M-A-R-R-A-F-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1mecha de cabelos retorcida e para cima e caída sobre a testa, semelhate à que usava Marrafi, o dançarino italiano que se apresentou em Lisboa em 1791
- 2cada uma das partes do cabelo separadas por uma risca
- 3um tipo de pente feminino usado como enfeite de cabeça
- 4uma dança derivada do fandango conhecida no litoral de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
- 5região localizada entre os chifres, no alto da cabeça dos bovinos; quando muito convexa, protuberante, é chamada de 'topete'; a mecha de pelos que aí cresce em algumas raças como a charolesa
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