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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014