Porangaba

Portuguese

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Porangaba

Etymology

From Old Tupi *porangaba (“beauty”).^[1] The city was originally a district of Tatuí named Bela Vista and was changed in 1919 to avoid confusion with another district in São Paulo city.^[2]

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /po.ɾɐ̃ˈɡa.bɐ/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /po.ɾɐ̃ˈɡa.ba/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /pu.ɾɐ̃ˈɡa.bɐ/ [pu.ɾɐ̃ˈɡa.βɐ]

Rhymes: -abɐ
Hyphenation: Po‧ran‧ga‧ba

Proper noun

Porangaba

A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil

Derived terms

porangabense

References

^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Porangaba”, 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 595, column 2
^ “Porangaba”, in IBGE‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 2023, História & Fotos

[1] Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Porangaba”, 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 595, column 2

[2] “Porangaba”, in IBGE‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 2023, História & Fotos

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