Noun: aza
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | aza |
| Plural f | azas |
Sample Sentences
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e nós, os homes, nunca tivemos azas. (and we men never had wings.) [1955, Celso Emilio Ferreiro, O soño sulagado, Akal editor, page 40:]
Nouns inflected like aza
sedela,
semana,
estimulación,
sabela,
saboga,
sandía,
juventude,
difusión,
estremonía,
souria,
somana,
soneca,
soncha,
sirena,
expresión,
ordenança,
cobertura,
homosexualización,
ringleira,
comedela, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese asa (“wing, handle”), from Vulgar Latin asa, from Latin ansa (“handle”). Compare the doublet asa. See: Portuguese Nouns '
asa', Latin Nouns '
ansa'.
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