malhado

Senso (Inglese)

Verb

past participle of malhar

Adj

1. mottled (coloured in patches), spotted, speckled, piebald
2. threshed (of cereal)
3. (Brazil, colloquial) fit, muscular

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malhar

1. to hammer (to strike with a hammer)
2. to thresh (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
3. to beat up (to give a severe beating to)
4. (Brazil, figuratively, slang) to make fun of, to scorn
5. (Brazil, dated, intransitive) to work out (to exercise rigorously)
6. (Portugal, colloquial) to fall

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Traduzioni

pinto

scheckig

calico

gefleckt

pounded

benekli

piebald

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/maˈʎa.du/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da latino: macula

Affine spagnolo: majada

In summary

From malha, or from Old Galician-Portuguese mallado, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin *mac(u)lātus, from Latin macula. Compare Spanish majada.