carvão

Meaning

  1. (masculine) coal
  2. (masculine) charcoal
  3. (masculine) smut (range of fungi that cause crop disease); fungus of the genus Ustilago

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
car‧vão
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kaʁˈvɐ̃w̃/
Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese carvon, from Latin carbōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *ker (“to burn”). Doublet of carbono.

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