malhado
Meaning
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malhar
- to hammer (to strike with a hammer)
- to thresh (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- to beat up (to give a severe beating to)
- (Brazil, figuratively, slang) to make fun of, to scorn
- (Brazil, dated, intransitive) to work out (to exercise rigorously)
- (Portugal, colloquial) to fall
gefleckt
benekliFrequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/maˈʎa.du/
Etymology
In summary
From malha, or from Old Galician-Portuguese mallado, from an Iberian Vulgar Latin *mac(u)lātus, from Latin macula. Compare Spanish majada.
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