uçá
See also: Appendix:Variations of "uca"
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi usá.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈsa/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /uˈsa/
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: u‧çá
Noun
uçá m (plural uçás)
- (Brazil) swamp ghost crab (Ucides cordatus)
References
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “usá”, 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 503, column 2