kukura

Nheengatu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kuˈkura/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: ku‧ku‧ra

Noun

kukura (plural kukura-itá) (Rio Negro)

1. Amazon grape (Pourouma cecropiifolia)

   Synonyms: mapatí, purumã (Solimões)

2. (by extension) fruit of this tree

Derived terms

• kukura-kurasí
• kukura-maniiwa
• kukuraí

 

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: cucura

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kukura”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 400