# paranã
## Nheengatu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paraˈnã/, (Rio Negro) [pa.ɾãˈnã]
* Rhymes: -ã
* Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧nã

### Noun

paranã (plural paranã-itá)
* Alternative form of paraná

## Old Tupi
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *paranã.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pa.ɾãˈnã]
* Rhymes: -ã
* Hyphenation: pa‧ra‧nã

### Noun

paranã (possessable)
* sea
    Synonym: pará
    paranãngûá ― sea cove
** c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L$^{ço}$” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], Niterói, pages 137–138, lines 593–607; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, pages 713–714:ſ. ſebaſtiaõ abe / marana rerecoaroera / Tamũya quireĩbagoera / omõbab erimbae / nitibangai çetãbuera // Opa Paranapucu / Yacutinga, Moroi / Çarigueya, Guiriri / Pindoba, Parigoaçu / Curuça, Miapeig. // Jabebiraçic tapera / aqueime niporetai, / yauye muamaroera, / oyoibiri çeombuera / parana ibiri ycoai.[São Sebastião abé, / marana rerekoarûera, / tamũîa, kyre'ymbagûera, / omombab erimba'e; / n'i tybangáî setãmbûera. // Opá, – Paranapuku, / Îakutinga, Moro'y, / Sarigûeîa, Gûiryry, / Pindoba, Parigûasu, / Kurusá, Miape'y, // Îabebyrasyka tapera – / akûeîme n'i poretáî. / I aûîé mu'amarûera; / oîoybyri se'õmbûera / paranã ybyri i kûáî.]Saint Sebastian too, the patron of war, destroyed the Tamoios, the brave ones; their old lands don't exist anymore. None of them – Paranapucu, Jacutinga, Moroí, Sarigueia, Guiriri, Pindoba, Pariguaçu, Curuçá, Miapeí, Jabebiracica's village – have had anything for a long time. The enemies surrended; their bodies were side by side along the sea.
** 1555, Joseph of Anchieta, chapter VII, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, published 1595, page 22:Acôcoríparanâmèné […][Asó kori paranãmene […] ]I will go to the sea today.
** 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter IIII, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Segundo do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 41v:Oquir coêcoẽ amâna, Paranã momũgabo.[Okyko'ẽko'ẽ amana, paranã momungábo.]The morning kept seeing the rain pour, filling the sea
** 1622, anonymous author, “Nauegar”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica‎ (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 48; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:Paranã rupi […] aguatâ.[Paranã rupi […] agûatá.]I sail across the sea.
* (hapax) seawater

#### Derived terms

* paranãgûasu
* paranãmbora
* paranãygûara

#### Descendants

* Old Tupi: paraná, paranã
** Nheengatu: paraná, paranã
*** → Brazilian Portuguese: paraná
** → Portuguese: Paraná

### References

* ↑ anonymous author (1622) “Aguoa do mar”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 24: “Paranã.”
* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “paranã”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 372, column 1