Guaraní

See also: guaraní and guarani

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish guaraní, from Portuguese guarani ultimately derived from Guaraní guarani (“warrior”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɡwɑːɹəˈniː/

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• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

Guaraní

1. South-American Indian language of the Tupí-Guaraní family; spoken in Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.

Translations

South-American language

• Armenian: գուարանի (hy) (guarani)
• Basque: guaraniera (eu)
• Catalan: guaraní (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓜拉尼語／瓜拉尼语 (Guālāníyǔ)

• Esperanto: gvarania
• Finnish: guarani (fi)
• German: Guaraní (de) n
• Hungarian: guarani (hu)
• Icelandic: gvaraní
• Irish: Guaráinis f
• Japanese: グアラニー語 (ja) (グアラニーご, Guaranīgo)
• Khmer: ហ្កួរ៉ានី (guəraanii)
• Korean: 과라니어 (gwaranieo)
• Paraguayan Guaraní: avañe'ẽ
• Portuguese: guarani (pt) m
• Russian: гуарани́ (ru) (guaraní)
• Spanish: guaraní (es) m
• Swedish: guaraní (sv)
• Ukrainian: Гуарані́ (Huaraní)

See also

• guaraní
• Wiktionary's coverage of Guaraní terms
• Appendix:Guaraní Swadesh list for a Swadesh list of basic vocabulary words in Guaraní

Further reading

• ISO 639-1 code gn, ISO 639-3 code grn (SIL)
• Ethnologue entry for Guaraní, grn ⁠, a language family including:

• Ethnologue entry for Paraguayan Guaraní, gug ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Chiripá, nhd ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Mbyá Guaraní, gun ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Eastern Bolivian Guaraní, gui ⁠
• Ethnologue entry for Western Bolivian Guaraní, gnw ⁠

Other related languages:

• Ethnologue entry for Aché, guq ⁠

Portuguese

Etymology

From guarani, a borrowing from Guaraní guarani.

Proper noun

Guaraní

1. A municipality of Minas Gerais, Brazil