aruanã

• IPA^(key): [a.ɾu.ãˈnã]
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: a‧ru‧a‧nã

aruanã (unpossessable) (North Tupi)

1. (hapax legomenon) silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)
   • [c. 1631, Christovão de Lisboa, Historia dos animaes e arvores do Maranhão [History of Maranhão's animals and trees] (in Portuguese), Lisbon, page 175:

     aruana / he tres palmos de comprido as escamas grandes a cor de prata comese a barbatunha tem uermelhas

     “aruana” is three spans long. The scales [are] big, silver-colored. It's edible. The fins are red.]

• Nheengatu: arawanã
• → Brazilian Portuguese: aruanã, aruaná

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “aruanã”, 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 63, column 2

• aruaná

Borrowed from Old Tupi aruanã. Doublet of arauaná.

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃
• Hyphenation: a‧ru‧a‧nã

aruanã m (plural aruanãs)(Brazil)

1. silver arowana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum)

   Synonyms: aruanã-prateado, sulamba

2. (loosely) arowana; bonytongue (any fish in the family Osteoglossidae)