embuá

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Portuguese

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Tupi ambu'a.[1]

Cognate with Nheengatu ambuá.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.buˈa/ [ẽ.bʊˈa], (careful pronunciation, faster pronunciation) /ẽˈbwa/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.buˈa/ [ĩ.bʊˈa], (natural pronunciation, faster pronunciation) /ĩˈbwa/

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: em‧bu‧á

Noun

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embuá m (plural embuás)

  1. millipede
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:diplópode

References

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  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “embuá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 30, column 2
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