araapy

Paraguayan Guarani

Etymology

Blend of ára (“day”) +‎ mbohapy (“three”), literally “day three”.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: a‧ra‧a‧py

Noun

araapy

1. (neologism) Tuesday

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References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “araapy”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 16, column 2

Further reading

• Estigarribia, Bruno (2020), “Common vocabulary” (chapter 15), in A Grammar of Paraguayan Guarani (overall work in English), London: UCL Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 296