paru

From Proto-Cariban *paru.

paru

1. river
2. water

• (water): tuna

• Desmond C. Derbyshire, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Handbook of Amazonian Languages, volume 1 (1986) (river, water)
• Edward Henry Koehn, Sally Sharp Koehn, Vocabulário Básico, Apalaí-Português Dicionário da Língua Apalaí (1995), page 52 (river)

paru m (plural paros)

1. stop
2. unemployment

• parar

From Proto-Cariban *paru.

• IPA^(key): /paɾu/

paru

1. water

• James Wheatley, Bakairi Phonemics (2009), page 4

paru

1. inflection of parkua:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• Rapu, pura, rapu

• IPA^(key): /pa.ʁy/

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• Homophones: parue, parues, parus
• Rhymes: -y

paru (feminine parue, masculine plural parus, feminine plural parues)

1. past participle of paraître

• pura, Pura, rupa

Back-formation from paru-paru (“lung”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpä.ru/

paru (plural paru-paru)

1. (medicine) alternative spelling of paru-paru (“lung”)

Although the term is listed as nonstandard in KBBI, it's the preferred spelling in the medical field.

• palugu (used when talking to a capuchin monkey)

From Proto-Cariban *paru.

paru

1. water

• 2010, Isaac Costa de Souza, A Phonological Description of “Pet Talk” in Arara (MA), SIL Brazil, page 42.

paru m (plural parus)

1. angelfish (a marine fish of the family Pomacanthidae)

   Synonyms: frade, peixe-frade