aimara

From a native name; said by Century to be Tupi, but perhaps in fact Cariban: contrast Emerillon taɾeʔiɾ (“aïmara”)^[1] with Trió aimara (“anjumara”).^[2]

aimara (plural aimaras)

1. A South American freshwater river fish, Hoplias aimara.
   • 1989, Ana Beatriz Locci Hernandez, Comparative Study of the Response of Simulated Temperate and Tropical Fish Communities to Fishery Exploitation and Environmental Variability:

     Release of fishing pressure after a 25 year period (Fig. 40) revealed that aimara increased rapidly becoming the dominant species, and that pavon declined drastically as aimara became abundant. Payara showed a slight increase ...

   • 2018, Stuart Kirsch, Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 246:

     Abak Ekwa means “the land of many avocado trees”; Haimara Ekwa means “the land of many aimara fish” (Hoplias aimara).

• anjumara

aimara m or f (masculine and feminine plural aimares)

1. Aymara

aimara m or f by sense (plural aimares)

1. Aymara (person)

aimara m (uncountable)

1. Aymara (language)

Borrowed from Spanish aimara, aymara, from Aymara Aymar aru.

aimara n (genitive singular aimara, uncountable)

1. Aymara (language of South America)

Derived from Spanish aymara.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯mɑrɑ/, [ˈɑ̝i̯mɑ̝rɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑimɑrɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ai‧ma‧ra
• Hyphenation^(key): ai‧ma‧ra

aimara

1. Aymara (person)
2. Aymara (language of South America)

• Maaria

aimara m or f by sense (plural aimaras)

1. alternative form of aimará

aimara m (uncountable)

1. alternative form of aimará

• aimará, aymara

• IPA^(key): /aiˈmaɾa/ [ai̯ˈma.ɾa]

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• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: ai‧ma‧ra

aimara m or f (masculine and feminine plural aimaras)

1. Aymara

aimara m or f by sense (plural aimaras)

1. Aymara (indigenous person of South America)

aimara m (uncountable)

1. Aymara (language)

• “aimara”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024
• aimara on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

aimara

1. the aimara or anjumara fish

• Carlin, Eithne (2004) A Grammar of Trio: A Cariban Language of Suriname, Frankfurt am Main