parám
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Macanese
Alternative forms
- (archaic) parão
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay parang (“short, heavy, straight-edged knife or machete”).
Noun
parám
- cleaver, butcher's knife (rectangular knife, commonly used in kitchens in Macau)
References
- Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “parão”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 506
- https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm