irara

Inherited from Old Tupi eîrara, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirar + Old Tupi -a.

irara (plural irara-itá)

1. tayra (Eira barbara)

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “irara”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 334

irara (unpossessable)

1. alternative form of eîrara

• Nheengatu: irara
• → Portuguese: irara

• Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § IIII (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1302: “Hirara [Irara]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “irara”, 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 190, column 2

• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: i‧ra‧ra

Borrowed from Old Tupi eîrara, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eirar + Old Tupi -a.

irara f (plural iraras)

1. tayra (Eira barbara)

   Synonyms: jaguapé, papa-mel, taira

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

irara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of irar