lacassá

Macanese

Alternative forms
  • laquessá

Etymology

Borrowed from Malay laksa.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /la.kaˈsa/

Noun

lacassá

  1. rice vermicelli
    sópa lacassá ― vermicelli soup

Usage notes
  • Nowadays most commonly used to describe Cantonese 米粉 (mai5 fan2), whence also the modern derivation mâi-fan.[1]

References
  1. Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “lacassá”, 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 463

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /la.kaˈsa/

  • Hyphenation: la‧cas‧sá

Numeral

lacassá m

  1. (India) lakh (one hundred thousand)
    Synonym: laque
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