mil-folhas
Portuguese
Etymology
From mil (“a thousand”) + folhas (“leaves, sheets”), modeled on French mille-feuille.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmiwˈfo.ʎɐs/ [ˌmiʊ̯ˈfo.ʎɐs]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌmiwˈfo.ʎɐʃ/ [ˌmiʊ̯ˈfo.ʎɐʃ]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmiwˈfo.ʎas/ [ˌmiʊ̯ˈfo.ʎas]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌmilˈfo.ʎɐʃ/ [ˌmiɫˈfo.ʎɐʃ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌmi.liˈfo.ʎɐʃ/
- Hyphenation: mil‧fo‧lhas
Noun
- mille-feuille (a type of pastry made of several layers of puff pastry)
Further reading
- “mil-folhas”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “mil-folhas”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026