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English
Etymology
From American Spanish carrao, from Guaraní car(r)aú, carao, caraó, originally probably imitative. Compare courlan, from a Cariban language.
Noun
carrao (plural carraos)
- The limpkin, a bird.
References
- ^ Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech (University of Alabama Press, 1939), page 257
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Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Guaraní .
Noun
carrao m (plural carraos)
- limpkin (Aramus guarauna)
References
- ^ Luis Hernández Aquino, Diccionario de voces indígenas de Puerto Rico (1993): "Carrao. (Del guaraní caráu.) Aramus picus picus."
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