pipoca
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piˈpɔkɐ/
- Hyphenation: pi‧po‧ca
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (cooking) popcorn
- a small skin boil
- a tapeworm cyst embedded in meat
Synonyms
- (popcorn): pororoca
- (skin boil): See Thesaurus:pústula
- (tapeworm cyst): canjica, canjiquinha, cisticerco, cisto, pipoquinha
Derived terms
- milho-pipoca
Related terms
- empipocado
- empipocamento
- empipocar
- pipocado
- pipocamento
- pipocar
- pipoco
- pipoqueamento
- pipoquear
- pipoqueira
- pipoqueiro
- ténia
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese pipoca (“popcorn”), from Old Tupi pi'poka (“sudden burst of a surface”).
Noun
pipoca f (plural pipocas)
- (Bolivia) popcorn