mucama
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /muˈkɐ̃.mɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /muˈkɐ.ma/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /muˈkɐ.mɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /muˈka.mɐ/
- Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
- Hyphenation: mu‧ca‧ma
Noun
mucama f (plural mucamas)
- (Brazil) housemaid; servant
- Synonym: criado
- 1881, Machado de Assis, O Alienista, section VI, page 46:
- —Está, sinhá, respondia a mucama de cócoras no chão, está boa. Sinhá vira um bocadinho. Assim. Está muito boa.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Brazil, historical) domestic slave
- Synonym: macuma
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese mucama, from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /muˈkama/ [muˈka.ma]
- Rhymes: -ama
- Syllabification: mu‧ca‧ma
Noun
mucama f (plural mucamas)
- maid
- chambermaid
- a. 1964, Felisberto Hernández, El pájaro asustado:
- Al llegar a mi hotel hice llamar a la mucama y le pedí que me trajera mis zapatillas.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Related terms
Further reading
- “mucamo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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