sabão
Meaning
soap
Frequency
Hyphenated as
sa‧bão
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/saˈbɐ̃w̃/
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese sabon, sabõ, from Latin sāpōnem, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).
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