jararaca

English

jararaca

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

Noun

jararaca (plural jararacas)

1. A venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.
   • 2008 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, for example, found that the venom of the jararaca snake could help control high blood pressure and used it to create the drug Captopril.

Translations

Bothrops jararaca

• Guarani:

  Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} jarara

• Hunsrik: Scharack f
• Polish: żararaka (pl) f
• Portuguese: jararaca f

References

• jararaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bothrops jararaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Bothrops jararaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• carajara

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi îararaka. Cognate with Spanish yarará through Proto-Tupi-Guarani.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒa.ɾaˈɾa.kɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒa.ɾaˈɾa.kɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒa.ɾaˈɾa.ka/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ.ɾɐˈɾa.kɐ/

• Rhymes: -akɐ
• Hyphenation: ja‧ra‧ra‧ca

Noun

jararaca f (plural jararacas)

1. jararaca

Descendants

• → English: jararaca
• → Hunsrik: Scharack
• → Polish: żararaka

Further reading

• “jararaca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026