mamãu

Nheengatu

Etymology

    Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese mamão.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /maˈmãw/
    • Rhymes: -ãw
    • Hyphenation: ma‧mãu

    Noun

    mamãu (plural mamãu-itá)

    1. papaya (fruit of the papaya tree)
      • 1872, Charles Frederick Hartt, “Notas sobre a lingua geral, ou tupí moderno do Amazonas”, in Anais da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, volume LI, Rio de Janeiro: M. E. S. Serviço Gráfico, partial translation of Notes on the Lingoa geral or modern Tupí of the Amazonas, published 1938, Frases (section II), page 378, line 820:
        kuaá mamáun tearún uán, itauá uán oikó.
        This papaya is already ripe, it's yellow.

    Derived terms

    References

    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “mamãu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 442
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