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Mirandese

Mirandese adjective: of or pertaining to Miranda do Douro (in the northeast corner of Portugal), its people, their culture, or their now-endangered Romance language.

Adjective

Mirandese (not comparable)

  1. Of or pertaining to Miranda do Douro (in the northeast corner of Portugal), its people, their culture, or their now-endangered Romance language.

Noun

Mirandese (plural Mirandese)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Miranda do Douro in the northeastern corner of Portugal.
    • Toward evening a Mirandese came in: he was a man of about fifty, a politician, bright and talkative, and so I left the carabineros to join him.1895, Edmondo De Amicis (translated by Stanley Rhoads Yarnall), Spain and the Spaniards, volume 1, page 95

Proper noun

Mirandese

  1. An endangered Romance language spoken in the northeastern corner of Portugal, principally in the municipalities of Miranda do Douro and Vimioso.
    • My example is taken from the Portuguese dialect of Mirandese, more specifically Mirandese as spoken in the area of Sendim[…]1974, R. Joe Campbell, Mark G. Goldin, Mary Clayton Wang, editors, Linguistic studies in Romance languages: Proceedings, page 41

Mirandese meaning in Arabic and Indonesian

Mirandese in Arabic

Romance language
لُغَة مِيرَانْدِيَّة luḡa mīrandiyya

Mirandese in Indonesian

Romance language
bahasa miranda

Forms of Mirandese

pluralMirandese

Questions about Mirandese

What does Mirandese mean?
Mirandese means of or pertaining to Miranda do Douro (in the northeast corner of Portugal), its people, their culture, or their now-endangered Romance language.
What is Mirandese in Arabic?
Mirandese in Arabic is لُغَة مِيرَانْدِيَّة (luḡa mīrandiyya). See Mirandese meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Mirandese?
Mirandese can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Mirandese in the dictionary

  1. mirandarize
  2. mirandarized
  3. mirandarizes
  4. mirandarizing
  5. Mirandas
  6. Mirandese
  7. Mirandian
  8. Mirandise
  9. Mirandised
  10. Mirandises
  11. Mirandising

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