enxaqueca

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic الشَقِيقَة (aš-šaqīqa)

Andalusian Arabicder.

Portuguese enxaqueca

Derived from Andalusian Arabic, from Arabic الشَقِيقَة (aš-šaqīqa). Compare Galician and Old Spanish xaqueca, Spanish jaqueca.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): (careful) /ẽ.ʃaˈke.kɐ/, /ĩ.ʃaˈke.kɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ẽ.ʃɐˈkɛ.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɛkɐ, -ekɐ
• Hyphenation: en‧xa‧que‧ca

Noun

enxaqueca f (plural enxaquecas)

1. (medicine) migraine (kind of headache, usually affecting only one side of the head)

   Synonyms: hemialgia, hemicrania

Further reading

• enxaqueca on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “enxaqueca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “enxaqueca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026