Araruna

Old Tupi

Etymology

From araruna.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /aɾaˈɾũna/
  • Homophone: araruna
  • Rhymes: -ũna

Proper noun

Araruna

  1. (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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Tupi arara (macaw) + una (black).[1]

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ɾaˈɾũ.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.ɾaˈɾu.na/

Proper noun

Araruna f

  1. Araruna (a town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil)

References

  1. ^ João Carlos Vicente Ferreira (2006) “Araruna”, in Municípios paranaenses: origens e significados de seus nomes [Paraná's municipalities: the origin and meaning of their names] (Paraná da Gente; 5)‎[1] (in Portuguese), Curitiba: Secretaria de Estado da Cultura