puçá

See also: puca, puça, and púca

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi pysá.[1]

Cognate with Nheengatu pisá.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: pu‧çá

Noun

puçá m (plural puçás)

  1. (Brazil) hand net (net equipped with a handle)

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “pysá”, 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 418, column 2
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