muçurana

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• mussurana (superseded)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi musurana. By surface analysis, muçu +‎ -rana. The term didn't refer to any snake species in that language and the origin of the new sense is unknown.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ.na/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ.nɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ.nɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.suˈɾa.nɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɐnɐ, -ɐ̃nɐ
• Hyphenation: mu‧çu‧ra‧na

Noun

muçurana f (plural muçuranas)(Brazil)

1. (historical) musurana (rope used in Tupian anthropophagic rituals)
2. common name of various black, ophiophagous snakes:

   Synonyms: boiru, cobra-do-bem, cobra-preta

   1. (strictly) mussurana (Clelia clelia)
   2. black false boa (Pseudoboa nigra)
   3. Boiruna sertaneja

Descendants

• → English: mussurana

Further reading

• “muçurana”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2024
• “muçurana”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• “muçurana”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “muçurana”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024