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sagueir

sagueir noun: palm wine made from the sap of the sugar palm, Arenga pinnata.

Noun

sagueir (uncountable)

  1. Palm wine made from the sap of the sugar palm, Arenga pinnata.
    • Pork, it is true, they hold in abhorrence, but will not refuse wine when offered them, and consume immense quantities of "sagueir," or palm-wine, which is about as intoxicating as ordinary beer or cider. When well made it is a very refreshing drink, and we often took a draught at some of the little...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 339
    • In the morning, after arranging their hair, they remove from the trees the bamboo containing the sagueir, or toeak, collected during the night, and trim the stump for running during the day to supply their evening libations.1883 February 13, H.O. Forbes, “On the Ethnology of Timor-laut”, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 10
    Synonyms:
    sagwire, sagoweer

Synonyms of sagueir

Origin of sagueir

19th century. From Portuguese-influenced Malay of the Moluccas (in Portuguese sagueiro), ultimately from Malay sagu (“sago”); compare Makasar sagéru, Buginese sagéru, Malay saguer, Malay sageru.

Questions about sagueir

What does sagueir mean?
Sagueir means palm wine made from the sap of the sugar palm, Arenga pinnata.
What part of speech is sagueir?
Sagueir is a noun.

Words near sagueir in the dictionary

  1. saguaro stacks
  2. saguarolike
  3. saguaros
  4. Sagubo
  5. Saguday
  6. sagueir
  7. Saguenay
  8. Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
  9. Saguenean
  10. Sagueneans
  11. Sagueneen

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