Pernambuco

Borrowed from Portuguese Pernambuco.

Pernambuco

1. A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife.

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Pernambuco (uncountable)

1. The hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows.
   • 1998 July, Strad:

     When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.

   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:

     [P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.

Pernambuco m

1. a state of the Northeast Region, Brazil; capital: Recife
2. Timbuktu, a distant or remote place

Uncertain. Different origins are proposed, including:

• Old Tupi paranãbuku ("long river") or para’nã ("river") + buka ("hole").
• Pernão Boca or Pernambuka, approximations of how natives referred to "Boca de Fernão", an old name for the Santa Cruz channel.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛʁ.nɐ̃.ˈbu.ku/

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Pernambuco m

1. a state of the Northeast Region, Brazil; capital: Recife

   Synonym: PE (abbreviation)

• → French: pernambouc