bará
Kariri
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese balaio. Cognate with Língua Geral Amazônica ûaraîa.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /baɾa/
- Rhymes: -a
Noun
bará (5th declension, 3rd person singular subará) (Kipeá)
- (hapax legomenon) basket
- 1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri (in Portuguese), page 23:
- A eſta quinta Declinaçaõ pertencem […] os nomes ſeguintes […] Barà, balayo.
- To this fifth declension belong […] the following nouns […] Barà, balayo.
References
- Rodrigues, Arion Dall’Igna (1942), “BARÀ”, in “Vocabulários Português-Kirirí e Kirirí-Português [Portuguese–Kirirí and Kirirí–Portuguese vocabularies]”, in Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, volume 2 (overall work in Portuguese), page 200, column 1