para-arranca

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === pára-arranca (pre-1990 spelling) === Etymology === From para (“stops”) + arranca (“starts”). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧-ar‧ran‧ca === Noun === para-arranca m (plural para-arrancas) (informal) slow traffic with frequent stops (informal, figurative) slow progress === Further reading === “para-arranca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026