embuá

Portuguese

Alternative forms

ambuá

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi ambu'a.[1]

Cognate with Nheengatu ambuá.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): (careful pronunciation) /ẽ.buˈa/ [ẽ.bʊˈa], (careful pronunciation, faster pronunciation) /ẽˈbwa/, (natural pronunciation) /ĩ.buˈa/ [ĩ.bʊˈa], (natural pronunciation, faster pronunciation) /ĩˈbwa/

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: em‧bu‧á

Noun

embuá m (plural embuás)

  1. (Brazil) millipede
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:diplópode

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “embuá”, 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 30, column 2
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