Araruna
Old Tupi
Etymology
From araruna.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aɾaˈɾũna/
- Homophone: araruna
- Rhymes: -ũna
Proper noun
Araruna
- (hapax legomenon) a male given name
References
- Simão de Vasconcellos (1663) Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Livro segundo, das noticias curiosas, antecedentes, das cousas do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Lisboa: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 98, column 2: “Arârúna [Araruna]”
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Araruna”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 60, column 1
Portuguese
Etymology
From Old Tupi arara (“macaw”) + una (“black”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ɾaˈɾũ.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ɾaˈɾu.na/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.ɾɐˈɾu.nɐ/
Proper noun
Araruna f
- Araruna (a town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil)