carcará

Portuguese

Syncopic form of caracará, borrowed from Old Tupi karakará, probably of imitative origin.

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈɾa/ [kah.kaˈɾa]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾ.kaˈɾa/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈɾa/ [kaχ.kaˈɾa]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɻ.kaˈɾa/

carcará m (plural carcarás)

southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus)
Synonym: carancho
- 1965 August 23, José Cândido, João do Vale, “Carcará” (1:10 from the start), in Show Opinião, performed by Nara Leão, São Paulo: Philips, published 1965:
  Carcará é malvado, é valentão / É a águia de lá do meu sertão / Os burrego novinho não pode andar / Ele pega no imbigo inté matar
  The caracara is evil, a bully / It is the eagle from my sertão / The young goat kids can't even walk / It picks on their navel until it kills [them]
(loosely) caracara (any of several South American birds of prey)
- 1887, Paulino Nogueira, “Vocabulario indigena em uso na Provincia do Ceará”, in Revista trimensal do Instituto do Ceará, volume 1, number 1, [Fortaleza]: Typ. Economica, pages 267–268:
  CHIMANGO (milvago chimango): especie de carcará, / alimenta-se de carne corrupta, de vermes, larvas e insectos, mas não ataca as aves nem os mamiferos.
  CHIMANGO (Milvago chimango): a species of caracara, it feeds on rotten meat, worms, larvae and insects, but doesn't attack the birds or the mammals.