Tupayú

Nheengatu

Alternative forms

• Tapayú

Etymology

Ellipsis of Tupayú Paraná (literally “Tapajó's river”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tupaˈju/
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: Tu‧pa‧yú
• Homophone: tupayú

Proper noun

Tupayú (Lower Amazon, archaic)

1. Tapajós (a tributary of the Amazon, Brazil)

   Synonyms: Paraná Pixuna, Tupayú Paraná

2. Santarém (a municipality of Pará, Brazil)

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “Tupayú”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 771–772