Feminine
miga
Meaning
- (feminine) crumb (small piece of bread, biscuit, cake, etc)
- (feminine, in-plural) a traditional Iberian dish consisting of leftover bread and various ingredients
Concepts
Synonyms
migalhadepão
Translations
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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