arasá

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.ɾaˈsa/
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: a‧ra‧sá

Noun

arasá (unpossessable)

strawberry guava (Psidium cattleyanum)
Guinea guava (Psidium guineense)
Synonyms: arasaíba, arasamirĩ
(broadly) Any tree in the genus Psidium
The fruit of these trees

Descendants

Nheengatu: arasá
→ Portuguese: araçá

Further reading

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “arasá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 60, column 1

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