tamanduá
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi tamandûá.[1] Compare Sranan Tongo tamanwa.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]tamanduá m (plural tamanduás)
- anteater (any of several New World mammals in suborder Vermilingua)
- (Brazil, slang) a great lie
- (Brazil, slang) a difficult situation
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]tamanduá m or f by sense (plural tamanduás)
References
[edit]- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tamandûá”, 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 459, column 2
- “tamanduá”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “tamanduá”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
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