guarani

guarani (plural guaranis or guaranies)

1. Alternative form of guaraní.
   • 1985, Latin America Report - Issue 75; Issue 85, page 63:

     In January of this year, deposits expanded to 11.294 billion guaranis, but then dropped to 10.219 billion in February.

   • 2009, Eric Falkenstein, Finding Alpha: The Search for Alpha When Risk and Return Break Down, →ISBN:

     The rules of the risk game were as follows: The player was given 8,000 guaranies (two-thirds of a day's wages) and could choose to bet nothing, 2,000, 4,000, 6,000, or all 8,000 guaranies.

   • 2013, USA Int'l Business Publications, Paraguay Land Ownership and Agriculture Laws Handbook, →ISBN, page 146:

     On November 15, the market rate stood at 3,330 guaranies to the dollar.

Ultimately derived from Guaraní guarani.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡuɑrɑni/, [ˈɡuɑ̝ˌrɑ̝ni]
• Rhymes: -ɑni
• Syllabification^(key): gu‧a‧ra‧ni
• Hyphenation^(key): gua‧ra‧ni

guarani

1. Guaraní (language)
2. Guaraní (member of the Guaraní people)

• (language): guaranin kieli

Ultimately derived from Guaraní guarani.

• IPA^(key): /ɡwa.ʁa.ni/

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guarani (feminine guaranie, masculine plural guaranis, feminine plural guaranies) (often invariable)

1. (relational) Guaraní

guarani m (plural guaranis)

1. Guaraní (language, singular only)
2. guaraní (currency)

• “guarani”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *waɾaniŋ, from Proto-Tupian *aɾaniŋ.

Cognate with Old Tupi gûarinĩ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡwaɾaˈni/
• (Paraguayan Guarani, Eastern Guarani, Southwestern Guarani) IPA^(key): [ɡwaɾaˈni].
• Rhymes: -i

guarani (plural guaranikuéra, locative guaranípe, semblative guaranícha)

1. (anthropology) one of the Guarani peoples; the collective of all Guarani peoples
   1. (linguistics) one of the Guarani languages or its ancestor, Old Guarani
2. (obsolete) war, fight

   Synonym: ñorairõ

3. (obsolete) warrior, fighter

   Synonym: ñorairõhára

guarani m

1. plural of guarano

• anguria, uragani

• guaraní (1931-prescribed spelling or misspelling)

Borrowed from Guaraní guarani.

guarani m (countable and uncountable, plural guaranis)

1. (uncountable) Guaraní (a Tupian language of South America)
2. (countable) guaraní (currency of Paraguay)

guarani m or f by sense (plural guaranis)

1. one of the Guaraní, an indigenous South American people

guarani m or f (plural guaranis)

1. (relational) of the Guaraní people
2. (relational) of the Guaraní language

• tupi-guarani

• “guaraní”, 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

Borrowed from French guarani, ultimately derived from Guaraní guarani.

guarani n (uncountable)

1. Guaraní