mameluco
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese mameluco, from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk, “slave”). Doublet of mameluke.
Noun
mameluco (plural mamelucos)
- A child born of one white parent and one Brazilian Indian parent. [from 19th c.]
- 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury 2005, p. 126:
- The Tupi, who a few years earlier had flourished along these opulent coasts, had already been driven farther and farther back into the forest, and appeared in the records […] only as occasional domestic slaves and already mainly present as mixed blood mamelucos, the first children of multiracial Brazil.
- 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury 2005, p. 126:
Coordinate terms
- (person of mixed race): see list in mulatto
Translations
child born of white parent and Brazilian Indian parent
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Adjective
mameluco (comparative more mameluco, superlative most mameluco)
- (dated or historical) Born of a white father and American Indian mother, particularly in South America.
Translations
born of a white father and American Indian mother
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References
- mameluco in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- mamaluco
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَمْلُوك (mamlūk, “slave”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.meˈlu.ku/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ma.meˈlu.ko/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /mɐ.mɨˈlu.ku/
- Hyphenation: ma‧me‧lu‧co
Noun
mameluco m (plural mamelucos, feminine mameluca, feminine plural mamelucas)
- (historical) mameluke (member of a military regime in mediaeval and early modern Egypt and Syria)
- mameluco (person born of a white father and American Indian mother)
Adjective
mameluco (feminine mameluca, masculine plural mamelucos, feminine plural mamelucas)
- mameluco
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mameˈluko/ [ma.meˈlu.ko]
- Rhymes: -uko
- Syllabification: ma‧me‧lu‧co
Adjective
mameluco (feminine mameluca, masculine plural mamelucos, feminine plural mamelucas)
- mameluco
Noun
mameluco m (plural mamelucos)
- mameluke
- mameluco
- (Latin America) overalls; onesie
- Synonyms: mono, braga, buzo, overol
Further reading
- “mameluco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014