sarará
التعريفات والمعاني
== Nheengatu ==
=== Etymology ===
Inherited from Old Tupi sarará. First attested in 1890.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [sa.ɾaˈɾa]
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: sa‧ra‧rá
=== Adjective ===
sarará
(of hair) fair and Afro-textured
=== Noun ===
sarará (plural sarará-itá)
person with fair Afro-textured hair
(obsolete) albino
(obsolete) a small crab species. Further details are uncertain.
(obsolete) moth in genus Hyalea
==== Derived terms ====
==== Descendants ====
→ Brazilian Portuguese: sarará
=== References ===
== Old Tupi ==
=== Alternative forms ===
=== Etymology ===
Unknown.
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): [sa.ɾaˈɾa]
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: sa‧ra‧rá
=== Noun ===
sarará (?)
moth (nocturnal flying insect)
Coordinate term: panama (“butterfly”)
a small crab species that climbs on trees. Further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
fiddler crab (any crab in genus Uca)
==== Descendants ====
Nheengatu: sarará, sarassará→ Brazilian Portuguese: sarará
→ Brazilian Portuguese: sarará
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
DTA, page 438: “sarará”
== Portuguese ==
=== Pronunciation ===
Rhymes: -a
Hyphenation: sa‧ra‧rá
=== Etymology 1 ===
Borrowed from Old Tupi sarará. Noun 2 sense 1 was first attested in 1900 and is likely a semantic loan from Nheengatu sarará.
==== Noun ====
sarará m (plural sararás)
(Brazil) crab of species Armases benedicti
==== Noun ====
sarará m or f by sense (plural sararás)
(Brazil) a multiracial person or pardo with perceivable black African facial features, light complexion and sometimes eyes, and fair but curly or afro-like frizzly hair.
==== Noun ====
sarará f (plural sararás)
(Brazil) alternative form of sarassará (“carpenter ant”)
=== Etymology 2 ===
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
==== Verb ====
sarará
third-person singular future indicative of sarar
=== References ===
=== Further reading ===
“sarará”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“sarará”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
“sarará”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
“sarará”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN