alvíssaras

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From alvíssara, from Old Galician-Portuguese alvyssara, from Andalusian Arabic البِشَرَة (al-bišara), from Arabic بُشْرَى (bušrā). Cognate with Galician albízaras, Spanish albricias and Mozarabic albixara. === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: al‧vís‧sa‧ras === Noun === alvíssaras f pl (plural only) reward given to someone bringing good news or something that was lost === Interjection === alvíssaras! glad tidings === Further reading === “alvíssaras”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “alvíssaras”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026