Noun: marfim
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | marfim |
| Plural m | marfins |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like marfim
lanternim,
saguim,
capetagem,
sonhim,
ultrassom,
ultra-som,
bombaim,
boletim,
albergagem,
berbequim,
pangolim,
pebolim,
zunzum,
bergantim,
borzeguim,
serafim,
pasquim,
porta-bagagem,
semitom,
paladim, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese almafi, from Arabic عَظْم اَلْفِيل (ʕaẓm al-fīl, “elephant-bone”), from عَظْم (ʕaẓm, “bone”) + فِيل (fīl, “elephant”). Compare Galician, Spanish, and Catalan marfil. See: Old Portuguese Nouns '
almafi'.
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