carcará

Portuguese

carcará (sense 1)

Alternative forms

• caracará

Etymology

Syncopic form of caracará, borrowed from Old Tupi karakará, probably of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈɾa/ [kah.kaˈɾa]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈɾa/ [kah.kaˈɾa]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /kaɾ.kaˈɾa/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /kaʁ.kaˈɾa/ [kaχ.kaˈɾa]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /kaɻ.kaˈɾa/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐɾ.kɐˈɾa/

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: car‧ca‧rá

Noun

carcará m (plural carcarás)

2. southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus)

   Synonym: carancho

   • 1965 August 23, José Cândido, João do Vale, “Carcará” (1:10 from the start), in Show Opinião, performed by Nara Leão, São Paulo: Philips, published 1965:

     Carcará é malvado, é valentão / É a águia de lá do meu sertão / Os burrego novinho não pode andar / Ele pega no imbigo inté matar

     The caracara is evil, a bully / It is the eagle from my sertão / The young goat kids can't even walk / It picks on their navel until it kills [them]

3. (loosely) caracara (any of several South American birds of prey)
   • 1887, Paulino Nogueira, “Vocabulario indigena em uso na Provincia do Ceará”, in Revista trimensal do Instituto do Ceará, volume 1, number 1, [Fortaleza]: Typ. Economica, pages 267–268:

     CHIMANGO (milvago chimango): especie de carcará, / alimenta-se de carne corrupta, de vermes, larvas e insectos, mas não ataca as aves nem os mamiferos.

     CHIMANGO (Milvago chimango): a species of caracara, it feeds on rotten meat, worms, larvae and insects, but doesn't attack the birds or the mammals.

Derived terms

• carcará-andino
• carcará-branco
• carcará-de-guadalupe
• carcará-do-norte