Feminine

miga

Meaning

  1. (feminine) crumb (small piece of bread, biscuit, cake, etc)
  2. (feminine, in-plural) a traditional Iberian dish consisting of leftover bread and various ingredients

Synonyms

migalhadepão

Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmi.ɡɐ/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese miga, from Latin mīca (“crumb”), from Proto-Italic *smīkā, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyg- (“small, thin, delicate”). Compare the borrowed doublet mica.

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