pará

• IPA^(key): /paˈra/, [paˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: pa‧rá

Inherited from Old Tupi pará, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *para. Probably result of a back-formation, since the term is only attested in compounds in Old Tupi and is completely absent in Língua Geral Amazônica.

pará (plural pará-itá) (obsolete)

1. sea

   Synonyms: paraná, paranawasú, parawasú

2. river

   Synonym: paraná

pará

1. obsolete form of parawa

• Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “pará”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 579

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *para. Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani para.

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: pa‧rá

pará (?)

1. wide river

   Hypernyms: 'y, y

2. sea

   Synonym: paranã

Only attested in compounds.

• Nheengatu: pará
• → Portuguese: Grão-Pará, Pará

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “pará”, 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 371, columns 1–2

• IPA^(key): /paˈɾa/ [paˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pa‧rá

pará

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of parar