This might be Spanish of Portugese, can anyone tell me what MEIA BAIANA means?

Question

I want to get this rashguard but I'd rather know what it says first...

http://www.33sports.com/product_info.php?cPath=38&products_id=514

Answer 1

It's portuguese, "meia" means socks and "baiana" is a word to define someone or something from Bahía, a city in Brasil.

So "meia baiana" is literally "socks from Bahía"

Answer 2

The answer isn't that simple. It's portuguese, indeed.

'Manto' means blanket or cover.

Let's translate the words 'Meia Baiana'. We've two meanings here:

1) Meia Baiana=could be Baiana sock, i.e., a sock that came from Bahia, Brasil, or...

2) Meia Baiana=could be someone/something half Baiana, in this case a feminine gender--masculine gender is Baiano.

Sorry, but we haven't the impersonal pronoum 'it' in portuguese like in english, so we use to attribute gender to inanimate things/objects on a quite arbitrary form. Sounds weird, huh?

Hugs from Brasil.

Answer 3

meia numeral = half

meia adverb = more or less

baiana = woman from Bahia

Bahia = brazilian State

Answer 4

In Brazilian Jiu Jitsu a ”Baiana” is a "Double Leg Takedown" also known as a "Morote Gari" in Judo. So, a "Meia Baiana" is a "Half Baiana" AKA "Single Leg Takedown".