beirame

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian [script needed] (bairam).[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /be(j)ˈɾɐ̃.mi/ [be(ɪ̯)ˈɾɐ̃.mi]
 

  • Rhymes: (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi, (Portugal) -ɐmɨ
  • Hyphenation: bei‧ra‧me

Noun

beirame m (plural beirames) (obsolete, Early Modern)

  1. synonym of chita (“chintz”)
    • 1553, João de Barros, chapter I, in Segunda decada da Aſia de João de Barros [The second decade of João de Barros’s Asia]‎[1], 1st edition, volume 4, Lisbon: Germão Galharde, page 49v:
      […] de maneira que muytos dos nóſſos vendo que nas caſas auia mais que cobicar que offendes, cada hum ſegundo ſe atreuia aſſy tomáua ás cóſtas o fárdo de ſeda, de beirames, de patóllas até irem dar com a pꝛáta ⁊ cruꝣ que tomaram a Pedraluareꝣ quando mataram Ayres Coꝛrea.
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Descendants

  • → Swahili: beramu

References

  1. ^ “beirame”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

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