Feminine
tábua
- (feminine) board; plank (long, flat piece of wood)
- (feminine) chopping board (small board on which food is chopped)
- (feminine) a small table for serving food or playing games
- (feminine) table (grid of data in rows and columns)
- (colloquial, derogatory, feminine) a woman who is very thin and has small breasts
- (Brazil, feminine, slang) a refusal or rejection, especially of a marriage proposal
Opposite of
peituda
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈta.bu.ɐ/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese tavoa, from Latin tabula (“board; plank”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of tábula, which is a borrowing.
split wood
thin plank
sawnwood
planche
tabla
plank
Brett
tavola
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