almofada

== Galician == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic مِخَدَّة (miḵadda), via Andalusian Arabic. First attested in the 15th century. Cognate with Portuguese almofada and Spanish almohada. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /almoˈfada/ [ɑl.moˈfa.ð̞ɐ] Rhymes: -ada Hyphenation: al‧mo‧fa‧da === Noun === almofada f (plural almofadas) pillow Synonyms: cabezal, traveseiro (dated) cushion 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127: Synonym: coxín === References === Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “almofada”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “almofada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “almofada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “almofada”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN == Portuguese == === Etymology === Borrowed from Arabic المِخَدَّة (al-miḵadda, “the pillow/cushion”), via Andalusian Arabic. Cognate with Spanish almohada. === Pronunciation === (Caipira) IPA(key): /ˌaɻ.mo.ˈfa.da/ Hyphenation: al‧mo‧fa‧da === Noun === almofada f (plural almofadas) cushion (soft material in cloth bag) (chiefly Portugal) pillow Synonym: travesseiro ==== Related terms ==== almofadar almofadado almofadinha (diminutive) === Further reading === almofada on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt “almofada”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “almofada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026