mámoa

From Latin mammula, diminutive of mamma (“breast”). Cognate with Portuguese mamoa and Spanish mambla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.mo̯a/

mámoa f (plural mámoas)

1. barrow; a type of megalithic structure found along Atlantic Europe consisting of a tomb (dolmen) inside a round, artificial hill once coated by a layer of stones

   Synonyms: anta, forno

   • 2003, Mercedes Vázquez Saavedra, O Courel, Galaxia, page 45:

     Entre a pista e as penas hai unha mámoa cuberta de vexetación no chamado Veiga de Arcas.

     Between the path and the rocks there is a megalithic tomb covered by vegetation in the so-called Meadow of Arcas.

2. this same artificial hill

   Synonyms: medoña, medorra

• Mámoa
• Mámoas
• Mamoelas

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “mamoa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mamoa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mamoa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mámoa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /ˈmamoa/ [ˈma.mo.a]
• Rhymes: -amoa
• Syllabification: má‧mo‧a

mámoa f (plural mámoas)

1. barrow