temimbou

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

From temi- (nominalizing prefix) +‎ mbou (to make someone come), literally someone who is made to come.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -u

Noun

temimbou (dependent form remimbou, third-person possessed form hemimbou)

  1. messenger; envoy

References

  • Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “temimbou”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 107, column 1