jangada

From Brazilian Portuguese jangada.

jangada (plural jangadas)

1. A traditional wooden sailing raft of northern Brazil.
   • 2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury 2005, p. 143:

     We went out into the bay on Paulo's jangada and I dived into the clear water and struck off some distance, then floated and looked back at the handsome boat.

Borrowed from Portuguese jangada, from Malayalam ചങ്ങാടം (caṅṅāṭaṃ)

jangada f (plural jangades)

1. An improvised raft made from the wreckage of a sailing ship.
2. jangada

• rai

• “jangada” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. jangada

• “jangada”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Malayalam ചങ്ങാടം (caṅṅāṭaṃ),[1] from Sanskrit [Term?].

• Hyphenation: jan‧ga‧da

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. raft (flat makeshift watercraft)

   Synonym: balsa

• → Catalan: jangada
• → English: jangada
• → Spanish: jangada

Borrowed from Portuguese jangada.

• IPA^(key): /xanˈɡada/ [xãŋˈɡa.ð̞a]
• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: jan‧ga‧da

jangada f (plural jangadas)

1. a kind of sailing raft found in northern Brazil

• “jangada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014