muçurana

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Portuguese

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muçurana

Alternative forms

mussurana (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi musurana. By surface analysis, muçu +‎ -rana. The term didn't refer to any snake species in that language and the origin of the new sense is unknown.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ.na/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ.nɐ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾa.nɐ/

Rhymes: -ɐnɐ, -ɐ̃nɐ
Hyphenation: mu‧çu‧ra‧na

Noun

muçurana f (plural muçuranas)(Brazil)

(historical) musurana (rope used in Tupian anthropophagic rituals)
common name of various black, ophiophagous snakes:
Synonyms: boiru, cobra-do-bem, cobra-preta

Descendants

→ English: mussurana

Further reading

“muçurana”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
“muçurana”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
“muçurana”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
“muçurana”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

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