jupará
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Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi îupará.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: ju‧pa‧rá
Noun
[edit]jupará m (plural juparás)
- kinkajou (Potos flavus)
- Synonyms: quincaju, macaco-da-meia-noite
- (broadly) olingo (any mammal of the genus Bassaricyon)
- Synonyms: olingo, gogó-de-sola
- (broadly) any mammal of the subfamily Potosinae
Usage notes
[edit]- The gender of this Portuguese word is always masculine. When the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “jupará-macho” for male, and “jupará-fêmea” for female.
Further reading
[edit]- jupará on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
- “jupará”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
- “jupará”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024