different between shantytown vs favela

English

Alternative forms

• shanty town

Etymology

shanty +? town

Noun

shantytown (plural shantytowns)

1. An area containing a collection of shacks, shanties or makeshift dwellings.
   • 2019, Dave Eggers, The Parade, Vintage Books N.Y., p. 173

     The forest gave way to shantytowns that stitched themselves into waves of blue-tented internally displaced camps and then stone dwellings hundreds of years old.

Synonyms

• (area containing a collection of shacks): Hooverville, slum

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese favela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??v?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

favela (plural favelas)

1. A slum or shantytown, especially in Brazil
   • 2012, Tim Edensor, ?Mark Jayne, Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities

     security forces in November of 2010 stormed one of the city's most notorious favelas, the complex of the Morro do Alemão in the northern zone of the city

   • 2008, Cedar Lewisohn, Street Art, Foreword, page 8.

     The favela is now the model for most of the world's cities, as vast numbers of people continue to migrate to them in order to survive.

Anagrams

• Lafave

Portuguese

Etymology

The slum sense is named after the tree. The first favela was founded by veterans of the War of Canudos on Morro da Providência (Providence Hill). That hill was similar to a hill where a battle took place during the war, which had many favela trees. The name of the tree probably comes ultimately from a diminutive of Latin faba (“bean”). An alternative and less likely etymology may be favo +? -ela .

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /fa?v?l?/

Noun

favela f (plural favelas)

1. a species of tree, Cnidoscolus quercifolius, native to northeastern Brazil.

   Synonym: faveleira

2. (Brazil) slum (dilapidated neighborhood)

   Synonyms: (Brazil) morro, (Portugal) bairro de lata, (Angola) musseque, (Mozambique) caniço

Related terms

• favelado
• barraco, cortiço

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) favella
• (Sursilvan) faviala
• (Sutsilvan) faveala

Etymology

From Latin fabella, diminutive of f?bula, or from a derivative of Vulgar Latin *fabell?re.

Noun

favela f (plural favelas)

1. (Surmiran, poetic) language

Usage notes

Implies a strong emotional attachment. Used almost exclusively to refer to Romansch itself.

Synonyms

• lungatg

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese favela. Doublet of fabela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa?bela/, [fa???e.la]

Noun

favela f (plural favelas)

1. favela