arara

See also: arará

English

Etymology

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Noun

arara (plural araras)

1. The palm (or great black) cockatoo of Australia (Probosciger aterrimus).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “arara”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Czech

Arara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈarara]

Noun

arara m anim

1. parrot from a genus Rhynchopsitta

Declension

Declension of arara (masculine animate in -a)

	singular	plural
nominative	arara	ararové
genitive	arary	ararů
dative	ararovi	ararům
accusative	araru	arary
vocative	araro	ararové
locative	ararovi	ararech
instrumental	ararou	arary

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *arar, from Proto-Tupian *arat. Doublet of ará.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [aˈɾa.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra

Noun

arara (unpossessable)

1. macaw

   Synonym: ará

Related terms

• ararakanga
• araruna
• Ararusuaîa
• araryba
• araso'iá
• marakanãarara

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: arara
• → Portuguese: arara

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “arara”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 59, column 2

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾa.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾa.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /aˈɾa.ɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɐˈɾa.ɾɐ/

• Rhymes: -aɾɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi arara.

Noun

arara f (plural araras)

1. macaw

   Synonym: ará

2. clothes rack

Derived terms

• arara-azul
• arara-canindé
• arara-de-santa-cruz
• arara-militar
• arara-vermelha
• ararinha
• pau-de-arara

 

Related terms

• araracanga
• ararapiranga

 

Descendants

• >? Saramaccan: alála

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

arara

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of arar

Further reading

• “arara” in iDicionário Aulete.
• “arara” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “arara” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “arara” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
• “arara” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “arara” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈɾaɾa/ [aˈɾa.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -aɾa
• Syllabification: a‧ra‧ra

Verb

arara

1. first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of arar

Yoruba

Alternative forms

• ràrá

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ā.ɾà.ɾá/

Noun

aràrá

1. (somewhat derogatory) dwarf

Coordinate terms

• òmìrán (“giant”)