aruanã
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Old Tupi
Pronunciation
Noun
aruanã (unpossessable)
- (North Tupi, hapax) silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)
Descendants
References
- Christovão de Lisboa (c. 1631) Historia dos animaes e arvores do Maranhão [History of Maranhão's animals and trees] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon, page 175: “aruana [aruanã]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aruanã”, 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 63, column 2
Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi aruanã. Doublet of arauaná.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃
- Hyphenation: a‧ru‧a‧nã
Noun
aruanã m (plural aruanãs)(Brazil)
- silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)
- Synonyms: aruanã-prateado, sulamba
- (broadly) arowana; bonytongue (any fish in the family Osteoglossidae)