<P> In Portugal, morrinha is a word to describe sprinkles, while morrinhar means "to sprinkle ." (The most common Portuguese equivalents are chuvisco and chuviscar, respectively .) Morrinha is also used in northern Portugal for referring to sick animals, for example of sheep dropsy, and occasionally to sick or sad people, often with irony . It is also used in some Brazilian regional dialects for the smell of wet or sick animals . </P> <P> In Goa, India, which was a Portuguese colony until 1961, some Portuguese influences are still retained . A suburb of Margão, Goa's largest city, has a street named Rua de Saudades . It was aptly named because that very street has the Christian cemetery, the Hindu shmashana (cremation ground) and the Muslim qabrastan (cemetery). Most people living in the city of Margão who pass by this street would agree that the name of the street could not be any other, as they often think fond memories of a friend, loved one, or relative whose remains went past that road . The word saudade takes on a slightly different form in Portuguese - speaking Goan families for whom it implies the once - cherished but never - to - return days of glory of Goa as a prized possession of Portugal, a notion since then made redundant by the irrevocable cultural changes that occurred with the end of the Portuguese regime in these parts . </P> <P> In Cape Verdean Creole there is the word sodadi (also spelled sodade), originated in the Portuguese saudade and exactly with the same meaning . </P>

Nostalgia for a place that no longer exists