Mooca

Portuguese

Etymology

According to Navarro, either from Old Tupi mũoka (literally “relative house”) or mooka (literally “house making”).[1]

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -ɔkɐ
  • Homophone: moca

Proper noun

Mooca f

  1. a subprefecture of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  2. a district of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, historically inhabited chiefly by people of Italian ancestry.

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Mooca”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 588, column 1

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