jenipapo
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi îanypaba.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -apu
Noun
[edit]jenipapo m (plural jenipapos)
- genipap (Genipa americana)
- Synonym: jenipapeiro
- genipap (fruit of the genipap tree)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → English: genipap
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îanypaba”, 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 159, columns 1–2
Further reading
[edit]- “jenipapo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “jenipapo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
Categories:
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/apu
- Rhymes:Portuguese/apu/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Fruits
- pt:Madder family plants