bacalhau

== English == === Etymology === From Portuguese bacalhau. === Noun === bacalhau (uncountable) Dried salted cod. == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Dutch bakeljauw, bakkeljauw, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Late Latin baccalaureus, baculum (“stick, staff”), referring to the way cod were split and dried on wooden sticks. Or, possibly from Basque bakailao. The Basque term may be either the source or the descendant of Dutch kabeljauw, cognates would then include French cabillaud and German Kabeljau. Cognate to Italian baccalà, Spanish bacalao, Catalan bacallà. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -aw Hyphenation: ba‧ca‧lhau === Noun === bacalhau m (plural bacalhaus) cod (Portugal, colloquial) handshake (grasping of hands by two people) Synonyms: aperto de mão, (Portugal, informal) passou-bem (Portugal, colloquial) vagina (woman's genitalia) Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina ==== Descendants ==== >? Saramaccan: bakajáu >? Sranan Tongo: batyaw (see there for further descendants) → Dutch: bakkeljauw (see there for further descendants) → Hawaiian: pakaliao → Shona: bakayau === References === Roberts, Edward A. (2014), A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN === Further reading === bacalhau on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt “bacalhau”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “bacalhau”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026