Cuiabá
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Cuiabá, from Old Tupi kuîaba.
Proper noun
[edit]Cuiabá
- A municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso, Brazil.
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi kuîaba.[1] The city was named after the hydronym.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: Cui‧a‧bá
Proper noun
[edit]Cuiabá f (demonym cuiabano)
- Cuiabá (a municipality, the state capital of Mato Grosso, Brazil)
Descendants
[edit]- → English: Cuiabá
Proper noun
[edit]Cuiabá m
- a river in Mato Grosso, Brazil
References
[edit]- ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Cuiabá”, 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 558, column 1
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese
- English terms derived from Brazilian Portuguese
- English terms derived from Old Tupi
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English terms spelled with Á
- English terms spelled with ◌́
- en:Municipalities of Mato Grosso, Brazil
- en:Cities in Mato Grosso, Brazil
- en:Cities in Brazil
- en:State capitals of Brazil
- en:Places in Mato Grosso, Brazil
- en:Places in Brazil
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Old Tupi
- Portuguese terms derived from Old Tupi
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/a
- Rhymes:Portuguese/a/3 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese proper nouns
- Portuguese uncountable proper nouns
- Portuguese feminine nouns
- pt:Municipalities of Mato Grosso, Brazil
- pt:Cities in Mato Grosso, Brazil
- pt:Cities in Brazil
- pt:State capitals of Brazil
- pt:Places in Mato Grosso, Brazil
- pt:Places in Brazil
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Rivers in Mato Grosso, Brazil
- pt:Rivers in Brazil