praya

Borrowed from Portuguese praia (“beach”). Doublet of playa and plage.

praya (plural prayas)

1. A promenade or drive located beside the seashore in Hong Kong.
   • 1973, Tzu-nang Chiu, The Port of Hong Kong: A Survey of its Development, page 24:

     Elsewhere on the Island, facilities for the transport of goods were limited to landing piers and prayas for junks and lighters.

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “praya”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Borrowed from Portuguese praia (“beach”). Displaced iwikuí, from Old Tupi.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpraja/, [ˈpɾa.jɐ]
• Rhymes: -aja
• Hyphenation: pra‧ya

praya (plural praya-itá)

1. beach

   Synonyms: iwikuí, iwikuitiwa

   • 2021, Bíblia Baré, Buia Igarapé; Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Territory: Missão Novas Tribos do Brasil, translation of The New Testament, Luka 5:11:

     Asui aintaumuyari aintaigara praya rese, aintauxari panye maa asui aintausu sakakuera.

     Then they docked their boats on the beach, left everything there and continued.

2. sand

   Synonym: iwikuí

   • 2014, “NÃNÔ, in Maria Sílvia Cintra Martins, editor, Leetra Indígena‎^[1], volume 3, number 3, São Carlos: UFSCar, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 June 2024, page 29; text written in São Gabriel da Cachoeira:

     AIKUÉ SIYA NÃNÃ NŨGARAITA. PURÃGA USEMU MAMÉ IWÍ YUMUNANIWA PRAYA IRŨMU.

     There are many kinds of pineapple. They grow well where soil is mixed with sand.

praya f (plural prayas)

1. obsolete spelling of praia