folar

See also: FoLAR

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese folar.

Noun

folar (uncountable)

1. A traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter.
   • 2009 April 8, David Leite, “Newark’s Portuguese Community Keeps Fires of Tradition Burning”, in New York Times‎:

     Mr. Alexandre is no stranger to the kitchen, as he’s proud to announce, having won several contests at the social club for his folar, a traditional Easter bread that in Trás-os-Montes is stuffed with cured meat.

Further reading

• folar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Flora, flora

Icelandic

Noun

folar

1. indefinite nominative plural of foli

Ladino

Etymology

From Portuguese folar.

Noun

folar

1. (cooking) folar (traditional bread served at Purim). It is a pastry made from a sweet yeast dough formed around a hard-boiled egg with the shell on for the eater to peel and eat with the sweet bread.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

folar m

1. indefinite plural of fole

Portuguese

Etymology

From fole +‎ -ar, ultimately from Latin follis.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /foˈlaʁ/ [foˈlah]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /foˈlaʁ/ [foˈlah]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /foˈlaɾ/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /foˈlaʁ/ [foˈlaχ]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /foˈlaɻ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fuˈlaɾ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /fuˈlaɾ/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /fuˈla.ɾi/

• Hyphenation: fo‧lar

Noun

folar m (plural folares)

1. (cooking) folar (traditional Portuguese bread served at Passover and Easter)

Further reading

• folar on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt
• “folar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “folar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025