cará
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Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: ca‧rá
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Tupi kará.[1]
Noun
cará m (plural carás)
- various species of Dioscorea and their edible tubers
- Synonym: inhame
- (nonstandard) taro (Colocasia esculenta) and its edible tubers
Etymology 2
Noun
cará m (plural carás)
- Alternative form of acará
References
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kará”, 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 218, column 2
Spanish
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
cará m (plural carás)