tancarêra

== Macanese == === Alternative forms === tancarera, tancaréra, tancareira === Etymology === tancá +‎ -êra. Intrusive -r- due to hypercorrected form tancar. === Noun === tancarêra female equivalent of tancarêro: boatwoman ==== Usage notes ==== Appears to be more common than its masculine equivalent. === References === https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_canarim Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988), “tancareira”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 542