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Kyama

Noun class IIInounReviewedpage 113

Portuguese spellingKiáma

Definitions

  1. 1
    Living being. Animal; creature.

    PT Ser vivo. Animal; bicho.·FR Être vivant. Animal; bête.

    Seen in the folk-tales

    • Kî busu-buke kiama kimoxi.Not even a single animal was left out.III · told by Jeremias da Costa, known as Jelemía dia Sabatelu
    • Na Ngo kiama, uêne mu kuata atu.Mr. Leopard is a wild beast; he is used to catching people.XVIII · told by Jelemía dia Sabatelu.
  2. 2
    Quadruped.

    PT Quadrúpede.·FR Quadrupède.

  3. 3
    Wild beast.

    PT Fera.·FR Bête sauvage.

  4. 4
    Donkey; mount.

    PT Asno; cavalgadura.·FR Âne; monture.

  5. 5
    Mount; horse; bull.

    PT Montada; cavalo; touro.·FR Monture ; cheval ; taureau.

  6. 6
    Brute, coarse. Intractable person.

    PT Bruto, grosseiro. Pessoa intratável.·FR Brute, grossier. Personne intraitable.

  7. 7
    figurative
    : ugly woman.

    PT Figurado: mulher feia.·FR : femme laide.

  8. 8
    Misanthrope.

    PT Misantropo.·FR Misanthrope.

Source · Assis Júnior (1940s), page 113 (right)\u00b7 modern spelling canonical, source spelling redirected