arara

See also: arará

English

Etymology

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Noun

arara (plural araras)

1. The palm cockatoo, native to Australia and the Malay Archipelago (Probosciger aterrimus).

References

• “arara”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Czech

Arara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarara]

Noun

arara m anim

1. parrot from a genus Rhynchopsitta

Declension

Declension of arara (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	arara	ararové
genitive	arary	ararů
dative	ararovi	ararům
accusative	araru	arary
vocative	araro	ararové
locative	ararovi	ararech
instrumental	ararou	arary

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi arara, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *arar, from Proto-Tupian *arat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈrara/, (Rio Negro) [aˈɾa.ɾɐ]
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra

Noun

arara (plural arara-itá)

1. macaw
   • 1890 [1872–1887], “Cyiucé [Pleiades]” (chapter V), in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, page 221:

     Dáina u yupire iuaca queté boiuçu racacuera. Dáina u cica iuaca opé u acema arara rupiá i cuara opé u mucuna, aap i yucé.

     Dáina climbed to the sky after the big snake. Dáina, arriving at the sky, found a hole with macaw eggs and swallowed them, getting thirsty right after.

     [Story collected at Rio Negro (Amazon)]

   • a. 1926, “Tupana roka [Tupana's house]”, in Antonio Brandão de Amorim, editor, compiled by Maximiano José Roberto, Lendas em Nheêngatú e em Portuguez (overall work in Portuguese), Manaus; published in Revista do Instituto Historico e Geographico Brasileiro, volume 154, number 100, Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1928, page 391, line 55:

     Maaiaué uapuhi yua iá oiku, araraetá oiýpyru umbaú oiku i yuáetá.

     Since the apuí tree had fruit, the macaws started eating its fruit.

2. (uncountable) a clan of Baniwa ethnicity

   Synonym: arara-tapuya

3. a member of this clan

   Synonym: arara-tapuya

4. (obsolete, uncountable) Arara (indigenous people that lives in Pará, Brazil)

Related terms

• arara-buya
• arara-iwa
• arara-kaá
• arara-kumã
• arara-kwara
• arara-maniiwa
• arara-mirá
• arara-naná
• arara-piranga
• arara-putawa
• arara-ruáya
• arara-sipú
• arara-tapuya
• arara-tawá
• arara-tukupí
• ararakanga
• araraí
• araruna
• pirarara
• tukumã-arara

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “arara”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 266

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings
Anchieta (1555)	arara
Thevet (1575)	arat
Léry (1578)	arat
Marcgrave (1648)	arara

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *arar, from Proto-Tupian *arat. Doublet of ará.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈɾa.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra

Noun

arara (unpossessable)

1. macaw

   Synonym: ará

   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 75v, lines 708–712; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 142:

     ſarau. […] To, añe, baepeque / caninde obi yaçoara? / Doyabij muru arara.
     Aimb. Caraibebe ae / morojubica ponitara.

     [Saraû[aîa:] […] Tó, anhẽ, mba'epe ké / kanindeoby îasûara? / Nd'oîabyî muru arara.
     Aîmb[iré:] Karaibebé a'e / moroîubyka pûaîtara.]

     Sarauaia: “Oh! Truly, what looks like a blue ara here? The bastard is no different than a macaw”.
     Aimbiré: “He's the angel that orders the hanging”.

Related terms

• ararakanga
• araruna
• Ararusuaîa
• araryba
• araso'iá
• marakanãarara

Descendants

• Nheengatu: arara
• → Portuguese: arara
  • >? Saramaccan: alála

References

• André Thevet (1575) chapter IX, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 929v: “Arat”
• Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XI, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 170: “Arat”
• Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § 4 (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1304: “Arara”
• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXX, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 226: “Arára”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter VI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 270: “Arara”

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “arara”, 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 59, column 2
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 266

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾa.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾa.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾa.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾa.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi arara.

Noun

arara f (plural araras)

1. macaw

   Synonym: ará

2. clothes rack

Derived terms

• arara-azul
• arara-canindé
• arara-de-santa-cruz
• arara-militar
• arara-vermelha
• ararinha
• pau de arara

Related terms

• araracanga
• ararapiranga

Descendants

• >? Saramaccan: alála

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of arar

Further reading

• “arara”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “arara”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “arara” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “arara”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “arara”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “arara”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɾa/ [aˈɾa.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: a‧ra‧ra

Verb

arara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of arar

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• ràrá

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɾà.ɾá/

Noun

aràrá

1. (somewhat derogatory) dwarf

Coordinate terms

• òmìrán (“giant”)