different between slum vs favela

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sl?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

Early 19th century. Originally slang, in the sense "room", especially "backroom" [attested 1812]; of unknown origin.

Noun

slum (countable and uncountable, plural slums)

1. (countable) A dilapidated neighborhood where many people live in a state of poverty.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:slum

   • 1855, Charles Dickens, "Gambling", in Household Words Volume 31

     Go to the half built-upon slums behind Battlebridge […] you will find groups of boys […] squatting in the mud, among the rubbish, the broken bricks, the dust-heaps, and the fragments of timber […]

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xvi:

     I saw that most of those who were spending from eight to fifteen pounds monthly had the advantage of scholarships. I had before me examples of much simpler living. I came across a fair number of poor students living more humbly than I. One of them was staying in the slums in a room at two shillings a week and living on two pence worth of cocoa and bread per meal from Lockhart's cheap Cocoa Rooms.
2. (slang, uncountable) Inexpensive trinkets awarded as prizes in a carnival game.

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

Verb

slum (third-person singular simple present slums, present participle slumming, simple past and past participle slummed)

1. (intransitive) To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own.

Derived terms

• slum it
• slummer

Etymology 2

See slumgullion.

Noun

slum (uncountable)

1. (slang) Slumgullion; a meat-based stew.

Further reading

• slum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Lums, MLUs, UMLS, lums

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slum]
• Rhymes: -um

Noun

slum m

1. slum (dilapidated neighborhood)

Further reading

• slum in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

slum m (definite singular slummen, indefinite plural slummar, definite plural slummane)

1. a slum

References

• “slum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -???m

Noun

slum f (definite sluma)

1. Old, sour and blue buttermilk without cream.

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