aramapara

== Old Tupi == === Alternative forms === aramopara === Etymology === Borrowed from Portuguese almofada. Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani aramboha through Andalusian Arabic. === Noun === aramapara (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica) pillow (soft cushion used to support the head) Synonyms: akangupaba, atuaupaba ==== Descendants ==== Nheengatu: waramapara === References === Hundertpfundt, Rochus [attributed] (a. 1756), [Prosodia da lingoa] [Prosody of the language] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica); copied as “Almofada”, in anonymous editor, 18th century, folio 7v, column 2: “Arámapár” Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Almofada”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 4, column 1, line 70; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 107: “aramapára” anonymous author (1771), “Almofada”, in Diccionario da lingua geral do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Belém, folio 18; published as Cândida Barros, Antônio Luís Lessa, editors, Dicionário da língua geral do Brasil [Dictionary of the general language of Brazil ], Belém: MPEG, 2015, →ISBN, page 100: “Arámopara”