bugio – Portuguese noun declension

Portuguese noun forms of bugio

Noun: bugio
Gender: m Hyphenation:
Singular mbugio
Plural mbugios

Sample Sentences

  • Ha nos matos da Bahia outros bogios, a que os indios chamam saîanhangá, que quer dizer bogio diabo, que são muito grandes, e não andam senão de noite[…] (There are other monkeys in the forests of Bahia that the Indians call “ka'ianhanga”, meaning “devil monkey”, which are very big and only come out at night.) [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CIV, in Notícia do Brasil, Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 234:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya)bor.
3. Old Galician-Portuguese Bugia
4. Old Galician-Portuguese -o
5. Old Galician-Portuguese bogio
6. Portuguese bugio
7. Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese bogio, from Bugia (“Bejaia”), from Arabic بِجَايَة (bijāya).
8. Cognate with English boogie and Italian bugia. See: Old Portuguese Nouns 'bogio', Old Portuguese Nouns 'bogio', English Nouns 'boogie', Italian Nouns 'bugia'.

Verbs referencing "bugio"

Portuguese Nouns bugiganga.

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