mucama
Portuguese
Alternative forms
- mucamba
Etymology
Borrowed from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).
Noun
mucama f (plural mucamas)
- (Brazil) housemaid; servant
- 1881, Machado de Assis, O Alienista, VI, page 46:
- —Está, sinhá, respondia a mucama de cócoras no chão, está boa. Sinhá vira um bocadinho. Assim. Está muito boa.
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- Synonym: criado
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- (Brazil, historical) domestic slave
- Synonym: macuma
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese mucama, from Kimbundu mukama (“slave, concubine”).
Noun
mucama f (plural mucamas)
- maid
- chambermaid
- a. 1964, Felisberto Hernández, El pájaro asustado:
- Al llegar a mi hotel hice llamar a la mucama y le pedí que me trajera mis zapatillas.
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Related terms
- mucamo
Further reading
- “mucamo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014