carrao
English
editEtymology
editFrom American Spanish carrao, from Guaraní [Term?] car(r)aú, carao, caraó,[1] originally probably imitative. Compare courlan, from a Cariban language.
Noun
editcarrao (plural carraos)
- The limpkin, a bird.
Alternative forms
editReferences
edit- ^ Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech (University of Alabama Press, 1939), page 257
Anagrams
editSpanish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Guaraní [Term?].[1]
Noun
editcarrao 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10