ingá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.

ingá (?)

1. inga (any plant in the genus Inga)

• Nheengatu: ingá
• → Brazilian Portuguese: ingá
  • → English: inga

• Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XXXVIII, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 226: “Inga”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter X (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 112: “Inga”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ingá”, 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 186, column 2

Borrowed from Old Tupi ingá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *iŋa.

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: in‧gá

ingá m (plural ingás)

1. (Brazil) inga

• → English: inga