makaka

• makaku

Inherited from Língua Geral Amazônica makaka, from Portuguese macaco.

• IPA^(key): [maˈka.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: ma‧ka‧ka

makaka (plural makaka-itá)

1. monkey; ape

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• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “makaka”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 437–438

Adapted borrowing of Portuguese macaco +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /maˈkaka/
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: ma‧ka‧ka

makaka (unpossessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. monkey

• Nheengatu: makaka

• Frei Onofre (1751) “Bugio”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 21, column 1: “Macáca”
• anonymous author (18th century) “Bugio”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 36: “Macaca”