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)

  1. (hapax legomenon) basket
    Synonym: setú (Kipeá)
    Near-synonym: cramemú (Kipeá)

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