cará

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cara"

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ca‧rá

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi kará.[1]

Noun

cará m (plural carás)

  1. various species of Dioscorea and their edible tubers
    Synonym: inhame
  2. (nonstandard) taro (Colocasia esculenta) and its edible tubers
    Synonyms: inhame, taioba

Etymology 2

Noun

cará m (plural carás)

  1. alternative form of acará

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kará”, 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 218, column 2

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈɾa/ [kaˈɾa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: ca‧rá

Noun

cará m (plural carás)

  1. taro (Colocasia esculenta)
  2. smooth-cheek eartheater (Gymnogeophagus gymnogenys)
  3. chameleon cichlid (Australoheros facetus)

Derived terms

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