enxaqueca

Portuguese

Etymology

From Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الشَقِيقَة‎ (aš-šaqīqa). Compare Galician and Old Spanish xaqueca, Spanish jaqueca.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ʃaˈkɛ.kɐ/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ʃaˈkɛ.kɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.ʃaˈkɛ.ka/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.ʃaˈkɛ.ka/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.ʃɐˈkɛ.kɐ/

Rhymes: -ɛkɐ
Hyphenation: en‧xa‧que‧ca

Noun

enxaqueca f (plural enxaquecas)

(medicine) migraine (kind of headache, usually affecting only one side of the head)
Synonyms: hemialgia, hemicrania

Further reading

enxaqueca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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