Solimões

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Solimões.

Proper noun

Solimões

1. Upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru.

Portuguese

Etymology

From one of the exonyms of the Yurimagua people.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /so.liˈmõj̃s/ [so.liˈmõɪ̯̃s]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /so.liˈmõj̃s/ [so.liˈmõɪ̯̃s]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /so.liˈmõj̃ʃ/ [so.liˈmõɪ̯̃ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /su.liˈmõj̃ʃ/

• Rhymes: -õj̃s
• Hyphenation: So‧li‧mõ‧es

Proper noun

Solimões m

1. Solimões (a river in Amazonas, Brazil)

Descendants

• → English: Solimões
• → Nheengatu: Surimãu, Surimã