sabão

Portuguese

sabão

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sabon, sabõ, from Latin sāpōnem, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, drip, trickle, strain”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /saˈbɐ̃w̃/ [saˈbɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /sɐˈbɐ̃w̃/ [sɐˈβɐ̃w̃]

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃w̃
• Hyphenation: sa‧bão

Noun

sabão m (plural sabões)

1. soap

Related terms

• ensaboar
• pedra-sabão
• sabonete
• sapólio
• saponáceo
• saponário
• saponificação
• saponificar
• sabonificável
• saponiforme

Descendants

• ⇒? Assamese: চাবোন (sabün)
• ⇒? Bengali: সাবান (śaban)
• →? Chinese: 雪文 (sap-bûn) (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒? Gujarati: સાબુ (sābu)
• ⇒? Hindi: साबुन (sābun)
• →? Japanese: シャボン (shabon)
• → Kannada: ಸಾಬೂನು (sābūnu)
• → Khmer: សាប៊ូ (saabuu)
• → Konkani: शाबू (śābū), शाबावं (śābāva)
• ⇒? Marathi: साबण (sābaṇ)
• ⇒? Odia: ସାବୁନ୍ (sābun)
• →? Okinawan: サフン (safun)
• → Sinhalese: සබන් (saban)
• → Telugu: సబ్బు (sabbu)

References

• Xavier, Anthony Soares, transl. (1936) [1913], Portuguese Vocables in Asiatic Languages, Baroda: Oriental Institute, translation of Influencia do Vocdbulario Portugues em Linguas Asiaticas by Sebastião Rodolfo Dalgado (in Portuguese), →ISBN, page 314, column 1