calhau
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Provençal calhau, from Gaulish caljavo or from *caljo (“stone”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -aw
- Hyphenation: ca‧lhau
Noun[edit]
calhau m (plural calhaus)
- stone, boulder
- (derogatory, informal) idiot
- (Brazil) placeholder
- (Brazil, journalism) an ad placed to fill space in a newspaper page; filler
Derived terms[edit]
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Provençal
- Portuguese terms derived from Provençal
- Portuguese terms derived from Gaulish
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese derogatory terms
- Portuguese informal terms
- Brazilian Portuguese
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