lança-chamas

Portuguese

Etymology

Calque of German Flammenwerfer (“flamethrower”, literally “shoots-flames”).

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.sɐˈʃɐ̃.mɐs/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.sɐˈʃɐ̃.mɐʃ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.saˈʃɐ.mas/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.sɐˈʃɐ.mɐʃ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˌlɐ̃.sɐˈt͡ʃa.mɐʃ/

Hyphenation: lan‧ça‧-cha‧mas

Noun

lança-chamas m (invariable)

flamethrower

Further reading

“lança-chamas”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026