maraká
See also: maraka
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani [Term?]. Cognate with Guajajára maraka and Kaiwá, Mbya Guarani, and Paraguayan Guarani mbaraka.
Noun
maraká (?)
- maraca (a Latin American percussion instrument)
Derived terms
- itamaraká
- Marakapu
Descendants
Further reading
- Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “maraká”, 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 261, column 1