jagua
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Guaraní[edit]
Noun[edit]
jagua (plural jaguakuéra)
Mbyá Guaraní[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Tupi îaûara, cognate with Guaraní jagua.
Noun[edit]
jagua
Paraguayan Guaraní[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
jagua (plural jaguakuéra)
Spanish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl xahualli.
Noun[edit]
jagua f (plural jaguas)
- a fruit tree native to the North and South American tropics, Genipa americana, with an edible fruit that, while still unripe, contains a colored juice used in body painting
- the fruit of this tree
Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
jagua f (plural jaguas)
- the fruit of a species of palm tree, the jagua palm
Further reading[edit]
- “jagua”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- Guaraní lemmas
- Guaraní nouns
- gn:Canids
- Mbyá Guaraní terms derived from Old Tupi
- Mbyá Guaraní lemmas
- Mbyá Guaraní nouns
- Mbyá Guaraní terms with obsolete senses
- gun:Mammals
- Paraguayan Guaraní terms with IPA pronunciation
- Paraguayan Guaraní lemmas
- Paraguayan Guaraní nouns
- gug:Canids
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡwa
- Rhymes:Spanish/aɡwa/2 syllables
- Spanish terms borrowed from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish terms derived from Classical Nahuatl
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns