English Explanatory Dictionary

maloca

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An ancestral longhouse used by the natives of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil.

Word forms

maloca malocas

Etymology

From Brazilian Portuguese maloca, from Spanish maloca (“raid, attack”), from Mapudungun malocán (“to fight”).

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