ambaíba

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Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Cecropia

Alternative forms

ambaiba, ambauba, ambaúba, ambaúva, embaiba, embaíba, embauba, embauva, embaúba, embaúva, imbaiba, imbaíba, imbauba, imbaúba, imbaúva, umbauba, umbaúba
rare: ambauva, ambaiua, imbauva, umbaúva
obsolete: ambayba, embayba, imbahuba, umbahuba

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi amba'yba.^[1]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.baˈi.bɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.baˈi.ba/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ̃.bɐˈi.bɐ/

Rhymes: -ibɐ
Hyphenation: am‧ba‧í‧ba

Noun

ambaíba f (plural ambaíbas)

cecropia (any tree of the genus Cecropia)
Synonyms: árvore-da-preguiça, cecrópia, torém

References

^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “amba'yba”, 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, pages 29–30

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