paraná

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Nheengatu

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Tupi paraná, from paranã, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *paranã.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    paraná (plural paraná-itá)

    1. river
    2. sea
      Synonym: paranawasú

    Descendants

    • → Brazilian Portuguese: paraná

    References

    • Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “paraná”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 579–580

    Old Tupi

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      From paranã, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *paranã.

      Pronunciation

      • IPA(key):
      • Rhymes: -a
      • Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧ná

      Noun

      paraná (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica, Língua Geral Paulista)

      1. river
        Synonyms: 'y, y
        • a. 1759, anonymous author, Narração que faz um sertanejo a um seu amigo de uma viagem que fez pelo sertão, page 190; republished as Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, “Um texto anônimo, em língua geral amazônica, do século XVIII”, in Revista USP, number 90, São Paulo, 2011 August, →DOI:
          Coritéité aiepabóc, / Paranà rupí aiparabóc, / Moçapýr tüibäé uçú, / Çupí ocepiác pytún uçú.
          [Koritéi té aîepabok, / Paraná rupi aîparabok, / Mosapyr tuîba'e usu, / Supi osepîak pytunusu.]
          Soon I departed. By the river, I chose three very old men. They really saw in the dark.

      Derived terms

      Descendants

      References

      • João de Arronches (1739) “RIO”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 278: “paranám”
      • Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Rio”, in (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 37, column 1, line 18; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 239: “paranà”

      Portuguese

      Etymology

        Borrowed from Nheengatu paraná, from Old Tupi paraná, from paranã, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *paranã. Doublet of Paraná.

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        paraná m (plural paranás) (Amazonas, Pará)

        1. a channel separating a braid bar from mainland
        2. a channel conecting two rivers

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