arasá

• IPA^(key): /a.ɾaˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧sá

arasá (unpossessable)

1. any tree in the genus Psidium
   • [p. 1583, Fernão Cardim, chapter V, in Do clima e terra do Brasil (in Portuguese); republished in Rodolfo Garcia, editor, Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: J. Leite & Cia, 1925, page 59:

     Araçá. — Destas arvores ha grande copia, de muitas castas; o fructo são huns perinhos, amarellos, vermelhos, outros verdes; […] Dão fructo quasi todo o anno.

     “Arasá”: there are many of these trees, of various kinds; their fruits are little pears, yellow, red and some are green. They bear fruit almost all year long.]

   • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, 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] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 225:

     Araſa eſt ſemblable au Pommier, ſon fruict eſt comme une moyenne pomme […]

     “Arasá” is similar to an apple tree, its fruit is like a medium[-sized] apple.]

• Nheengatu: arasá
• → Portuguese: araçá

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “arasá”, 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 60, column 1