calembur
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French calembour.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.lẽˈbuʁ/ [ka.lẽˈbuh]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ka.lẽˈbuɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ka.lẽˈbuʁ/ [ka.lẽˈbuχ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /ka.lẽˈbuɻ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.lẽˈbuɾ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.lẽˈbu.ɾi/
- Hyphenation: ca‧lem‧bur
Noun
calembur m (plural calembures)
- pun (joke or type of wordplay)
- Synonym: trocadilho
Further reading
- “calembur”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “calembur”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026