Feminine
mão
Sentences
Você sabe onde eu posso comprar 🛍️ um 1 clarinete de segunda mão ?
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Do you know where I can buy a second-hand clarinet?
Meaning
- (feminine) hand
- (feminine) forefoot (either of the front feet of a quadruped)
- (feminine) hand (a round of a card game)
- (feminine) coat (a covering of material, such as paint)
- (feminine) leg (a single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest)
- (feminine) handball (football offence)
- (feminine, figuratively) hand (an instance of helping)
- (feminine) direction (of travel), way
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mão (“hand”), from Latin manus (“hand”), from Proto-Italic *manus, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂-r̥ ~ *mh₂-én-, derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”), or perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *mon-u- (see the Proto-Italic entry). Cognate with Galician man, Spanish mano, Catalan mà, Occitan man, French main, Italian mano and Romanian mână.
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