tabefe
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic طَبِخ (ṭabiḵ, “cooked (food)”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ta‧be‧fe
Noun
[edit]tabefe m (plural tabefes)
- (cooking) dessert made with milk, eggs and sugar
- whey (liquid remaining after milk has been curdled)
- Synonym: atabefe
- (informal) slap, smack
- 2013, Machado De Assis, Obras Completas: Todos os Romances (Ressurreição, A Mão e a Luva, Helena, Iaiá Garcia, Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cuba, Casa Velha, Quincas Borba, Dom Casmurro, Esaú e Jacó, Memorial de Aires), e-artnow, →ISBN:
- Que alegria! que entusiasmo! que saltos em voltado amo! chega a lamber-lhe a mão de contente, mas Rubião dá-lhe um tabefe, que lhe dói; ele recua um pouco, triste, com a cauda entre as pernas; […]
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Further reading
[edit]- “tabefe”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “tabefe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Arabic
- Portuguese terms derived from Arabic
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Cooking
- Portuguese informal terms
- Portuguese terms with usage examples
- Portuguese terms with quotations
- pt:Dairy products
- pt:Desserts