[English version below]Tava ouvindo isso:E pensei: bem... malandro e uma palavra comum no pais inteiro. Deve ter origem europeia [com acento!] mesmo (nada de influencia indigena ou africana). Fui atras:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malandro< --- vem de malandrinohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malandrino< --- vem da mesma palavra em italianohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malandrino#Italian (mesmo link)Quem diria? Vem de mal (ruim mesmo) + *landrino, esse ultimo de origem germanica![claro, claro... minha fonte foi o Wiktionary. Nao muito confiavel, mas achei legal a historia]--[Versao em Portugues acima]I was hearing this:And then thought: well... malandro[1] is a common word in the entire country. It must have some european origin then (no indigenous or african influence[2]). Searched for it:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malandro< --- comes from malandrinohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malandrino< --- comes from the same word in Italianhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malandrino#Italian (same link)Who would tell? It comes from mal (bad) + *landrino, the latter from germanic origin![of course, of course... my source was the Wiktionary. Not that trustworthy, but I found the history nice]--Post-scripta:[1]: in Portuguese, nowadays, it means someone who is "smart", who may try to fool you. In the past (i.e., ~1950s), it meant exactly what the English definition of the Wiktionary says: A young criminal, punk or thug [...] conscious of image and status; preoccupied with projecting coolness and non-conformity, and willing to use violence to establish social status.[2]: "outsiders" (non-Brazilians) normally don't realize the extent of the importance of these two groups in our culture. Half of our population has some african ascent, and words from african languages abound in our Portuguese. Indigenous words are also common (though the influence is way more constrained -- at least in my region). Brazilian Portuguese is full of words with African origin. Because the black people came to Brazil as slaves, however, they often are loaded with some bad connotation. The other day I started listing some that, to me, sounded African (I know I am being very loose and treating the different people as if they were all the same... but this is supposed to be a fast post =) ), and a friend called me racist because I could only remember words with bad connotation (actually, it was not true -- some words were food names, and he ignored them v__v). I wanted to put somewhere a list of them (so that I can close some tabs in my browser), and that is why I am posting this here.The version in Portuguese of the article on Kimbundu (a language spoken by many of the slaves who came to Brazil) in Wikipedia has a list of many of the words I am looking for, likemuamba: anything that is cheap in another place that you bring home when coming back -- often without paying the taxes);muleque: boy;bunda: ass;fuba: some corn flour/powder.Another word, mandinga (a curse or a "spell"), comes from the Mandinka people in West Africa. Also, some places say that treta (previously, I always heard it as a "scheme", in sentences like tem treta nisso ai ["there is treta in this thing"], but nowadays it became some kind of "flamewar", and people say isso vai dar uma treta [this is gonna cause a huge treta]) is