carrao
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From American Spanish carrao, from Guaraní [Term?] car(r)aú, carao, caraó,[1] originally probably imitative. Compare courlan, from a Cariban language.
Noun
[edit]carrao (plural carraos)
- The limpkin, a bird.
Alternative forms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech (University of Alabama Press, 1939), page 257
Anagrams
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Guaraní [Term?].[1]
Noun
[edit]carrao m (plural carraos)
References
[edit]- ^ Luis Hernández Aquino, Diccionario de voces indígenas de Puerto Rico (1993): "Carrao. (Del guaraní caráu.) Aramus picus picus."
Further reading
[edit]- “carrao”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28