Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| alastrim | a mild form of smallpox. |
| ama amah | an Oriental nursemaid. |
| angico | a S. American tree of the mimosa family > ANGICOS. [Port. from TUPI]. |
| avo | a monetary unit of Macao > AVOS. |
| bandeira | an expedition in search of gold and slaves in 17c Brazil. |
| bandeirante | a pioneer, explorer or adventurer, esp one who took part in a BANDEIRA. |
| bucellas | a white wine from Bucellas near Lisbon. |
| caboceer | a W. African headman. |
| cang cangue | a wooden collar used to punish criminals in China. |
| capoeira capuera | a martial art and dance combination. |
| carambola | a small E. Indian tree; its fruit. |
| carioca | a dance, a variation of the samba. |
| cavalla cavally | an American fish of the SCAD family. [Port. cavalla, mackerel]. |
| cobra | a kind of snake. |
| comprador compradore | a native agent or intermediary through whom a foreign power trades. |
| conto | a Portuguese and Brazilian monetary unit worth 1000 escudos. |
| crusado | an old Portuguese monetary unit > CRUSADOES or CRUSADOS. Cf. CRUZADO. |
| cruzado | the former monetary unit of Brazil, replaced by the CRUZEIRO > CRUZADOS or CRUZADOES. Cf. CRUSADO. |
| cruzeiro | the standard monetary unit of Brazil, that replaced the CRUZADO > CRUZEIROS. |
| cuspidor cuspidore | a spittoon. |
| dobra | a former monetary unit of Portugal, a gold coin. |
| dodo | an extinct bird of Madagascar > DODOES or DODOS. [Port. doudo silly]. |
| escudo | a Portuguese monetary unit > ESCUDOS. |
| fado | a type of Portuguese folk-song or dance > FADOS. [Port. fado, fate]. |
| favela favella | in Brazil, a shanty-town. |
| fazenda | a hacienda, a coffee plantation. |
| feijoa | an tropical evergreen shrub or small tree of the myrtle family; the edible green fruit of this. [From J. da Silva Feijó (1760—1824), Brazilian naturalist.] | feijoada | a Brazilian dish of black beans, meat and vegetables served with rice. |
| gallivat | a large two-masted Malay boat. |
| gentoo | a kind of penguin. [Port. gentio, a Gentile]. |
| geropiga | a port substitute, consisting mainly of grape juice and brandy. [Port. jeropiga]. |
| goglet gurglet guglet | a porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation. [Port. gorgoleta]. |
| grego | a short jacket or cloak, made of very thick, coarse cloth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant > GREGOS. |
| ipecac ipecacuanha | the dried root of various S. American plants, used as a purgative, expectorant and emetic. [Port. from Tupi]. |
| jacana | any of various small tropical wading birds of the family Jacanidae, which have greatly elongated toes and claws, enabling them to walk on floating vegetation. [Port., from Tupi]. |
| lorcha | a light vessel of European build, like a Chinese junk. |
| macumba | a Black religious cult practised in Brazil, characterized by sorcery, ritual dancing, and the use of fetishes. |
| mameluco | a child born of a white father and Indian mother > MAMELUCOS. [Port., prob. f. Arab. mamluk, possession, slave]. |
| mangabeira | a Brazilian apocynaceous rubber tree. |
| maraca | a kind of gourd, used as a musical instrument. |
| margosa | a large tree of genus Melia found in India, valued for medicinal purposes, aka NEEM. [Port. amargosa fem. of amargoso bitter.] |
| maxixe | a Brazilian ballroom dance resembling the two-step. |
| metical | a monetary unit of Mozambique > METICALS or METICAIS. |
| milreis | a former Portuguese coin superseded by the ESCUDO. |
| moidore | a Portuguese gold coin current in England in the first half of the 18th cent., then worth about 27 shillings. [Port. moeda d'ouro coin of gold]. |
| montaria | in Brazil, a light canoe made of one log. |
| palmyra | a species of palm having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. |
| pataca | a monetary unit of Macau. |
| patamar pattamar | a vessel resembling a grab, used in the coasting trade of Bombay and Ceylon. |
| paxiuba | a Brazilian palm with stilt-roots. |
| pintada pintado | a kind of petrel; the Cape guinea fowl. [Port. pintado, painted]. |
| pomfret | a sea fish found along the Indian coasts. [Port. pampo]. |
| portague portigue | an old Portuguese coin of the 16c and 17c. |
| pousada | a traditional hotel in Portugal or Portuguese speaking countries. |
| pupunha | the peach-palm; its fruit. [Port. from Tupi]. |
| samba | a Brazilian dance; (verb) to dance the samba. |
| sargasso | a kind of seaweed, gulf weed. [Port. sargaço]. |
| seir | a scombroid fish of the eastern coastal waters of India. |
| serafin seraphin xerafin xeraphin | a former silver coin of Goa. |
| seringa | a Brazilian tree yielding rubber. |
| serval | a slender long-legged African cat, with a spotted coat. [Port (lobo) cerval, literally, deer-like wolf] |
| talapoin | a small green West African guenon monkey; a title of respect for a Buddhist monk. [Port. talapão from Old Peguan tala pói lit. lord of merit', used as a respectful title for a Buddhist monk.] |
| tanga | a brief string-like bikini. [Port., ult. of Bantu origin]. |
| tical | an obsolete Siamese monetary unit. |
| tristeza | a disease of citrus trees. [Port. tristeza, sadness]. |
| verdelho | (a white Madeira made from) a white grape orig. growing in Madeira. |
| vindaloo | a very hot curry. [Port. vin d'alho]. |
| zimbi | a kind of cowrie used as money. [Port. zimbo; of African origin]. |