fumaça

Meaning

smoke (particles and vapor/vapour given off by burning material)

Hyphenated as

fu‧ma‧ça

Gender

♀️ Feminine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fuˈma.sɐ/

Etymology

From fumo + -aça, from Old Galician-Portuguese fumo, from Latin fūmus (“smoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”).

Sentences

É simplesmente a fumaça das fábricas .

It's simply the smoke from the factories.

Dois bombeiro são cercados por fumaça .

Two firefighters are surrounded by smoke.

A fumaça vinha de todas as rachaduras .

Smoke was coming from all the cracks.

Fumaça descia de todos os lados .

Smoke descended from all sides.