jararaca

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

    Noun

    jararaca (plural jararacas)

    1. A venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.
      • 2008 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?”, in New York Times‎[1]:
        The pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, for example, found that the venom of the jararaca snake could help control high blood pressure and used it to create the drug Captopril.

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    Portuguese

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Old Tupi îararaka.[1]

      Pronunciation

       
      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒa.ɾaˈɾa.kɐ/
        • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ʒa.ɾaˈɾa.ka/
      • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʒɐ.ɾɐˈɾa.kɐ/

      • Rhymes: -akɐ

      Noun

      jararaca f (plural jararacas)

      1. jararaca

      Descendants

      • → English: jararaca
      • → Hunsrik: Scharack
      • → Polish: żararaka
      • ⇒ Translingual: Bothrops jararaca

      References

      1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îararaka”, 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 161, column 2
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