aruanã

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a.ɾu.ãˈnã]
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: a‧ru‧a‧nã

Noun

aruanã (unpossessable)

1. (North Tupi, hapax) silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)

Descendants

• Nheengatu: arawanã
• → Brazilian Portuguese: aruanã, aruaná

References

• Christovão de Lisboa (c. 1631) Historia dos animaes e arvores do Maranhão‎^[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon, page 175: “aruana [aruanã]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aruanã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 63, column 2

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• aruaná

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi aruanã. Doublet of arauaná.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /a.ɾu.aˈnɐ̃/ [a.ɾʊ.aˈnɐ̃], (faster pronunciation) /a.ɾwaˈnɐ̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐ.ɾwɐˈnɐ̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃
• Hyphenation: a‧ru‧a‧nã

Noun

aruanã m (plural aruanãs)(Brazil)

1. silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)

   Synonyms: aruanã-prateado, sulamba

2. (broadly) arowana; bonytongue (any fish in the fmily Osteoglossidae)

Derived terms

• aruanã-dourado
• aruanã-negro
• aruanã-pérola
• aruanã-pintado
• aruanã-prateado