arasá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.ɾaˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧sá

Noun

arasá (unpossessable)

1. strawberry guava (Psidium cattleyanum)
2. Guinea guava (Psidium guineense)

   Synonyms: arasaíba, arasamirĩ

3. (broadly) Any tree in the genus Psidium
4. The fruit of these trees

Descendants

• Nheengatu: arasá
• → Portuguese: araçá

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “arasá”, 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 60, column 1