akará

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• kará

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *akara.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akaˈra/, [a.kaˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ka‧rá

Noun

akará (unpossessable)

1. acara (common name of various fish in the family Cichlidae)

Related terms

• akarakamuku
• akarakorõ
• akarakorõ'i
• akaramuku
• akarapeasaba
• akarapeba
• akarapinima
• akarapitamba
• akarapuku
• akarapururu
• akarapytanga
• akarapytangîuba
• akaratinga
• akaraãîa
• akaraîu
• akaraúna
• akaraûasu

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: akará
• → Brazilian Portuguese: acará, cará
  • → English: acara
  • → Hunsrik: Karaa

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “akará”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 24, column 1