pará

See also: Appendix:Variations of "para"

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *para.

Cognate with Guaraní para.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pará (possessable)

1. wide river
2. sea

   Synonym: paranã

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pará
• → Portuguese: Pará

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (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

Spanish

Verb

pará

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of parar