piracanjuba
Portuguese
editEtymology
editFrom Old Tupi pirá (“fish”) + akanga (“head”) + îub (“yellow”) + -a: yellow headed fish.[1]
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: pi‧ra‧can‧ju‧ba
Noun
editpiracanjuba m (plural piracanjubas)
- (Brazil) a freshwater fish from South American rivers (Brycon orbignyanus)
References
edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) 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