Porangaba
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom 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
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- Rhymes: -abɐ
- Hyphenation: Po‧ran‧ga‧ba
Proper noun
editPorangaba
- A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ 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