carvão
Meaning
- (masculine) coal
- (masculine) charcoal
- (masculine) smut (range of fungi that cause crop disease); fungus of the genus Ustilago
Frequency
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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