chumbado
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin plumbātus. By surface analysis, chumbar + -ado. Piecewise doublet of prumado.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃũˈba.du/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʃũˈba.do/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʃũˈba.du/ [ʃũˈba.ðu]
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /t͡ʃũˈba.du/ [t͡ʃũˈba.ðu]
- Rhymes: -adu
- Hyphenation: chum‧ba‧do
Adjective
chumbado (feminine chumbada, masculine plural chumbados, feminine plural chumbadas)
- leaded (held on place by strips of lead)
- filled (of a tooth)
- Tenho um dente chumbado. ― I have a filled tooth.
- (Portugal, colloquial) flunked
- Aquela turma conta com três alunos chumbados. ― That class has three flunked students.
- (Northeast Brazil, colloquial) sick
- Synonym: doente
- (Northeast Brazil, colloquial) drunk; wasted
- Synonym: bêbado
Related terms
Verb
chumbado (feminine chumbada, masculine plural chumbados, feminine plural chumbadas)
- past participle of chumbar
Further reading
- “chumbado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “chumbado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026