Portuguese spellingPakása
Word formsjipakasaplural · source-attested
Definitions
- 1Buffalo; wild bull.
PT Búfalo; boi bravo.·FR Buffle; taureau sauvage.
Seen in the folk-tales
- Dikixi iú uiza; uambata phakasa jiiadi.One Di-kishi comes; he carries two buffaloes.VIII · told by Musoki, a young Mu-suku man
- Usanga muëzala; a-ngana Palanga, Pakasa, Sefu, Hoji, Kisebele, Semvu, ni muene ngana Ngo.He found the place full: Messrs. Palanga, Buffalo, Sefu, Lion, Kisebele, Semvu, and Mr. Leopard himself.XXVI · told by Francisco P. dos Santos Vandunem, a blind but gentlemanly old man of Loanda's native aristocracy, said to descend from a royal line of the A-Luá-lunga or A-bidi tribe.
- 2Former Black-war soldier. Militia soldier.
PT Antigo soldado de guerra preta. Soldado miliciano.·FR Ancien soldat de guerre noire. Soldat milicien.