# arara
## English
### Etymology

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### Noun

arara (plural araras)
* The palm cockatoo, native to Australia and the Malay Archipelago (Probosciger aterrimus).

### References

* “arara”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈarara]

### Noun

arara m anim
* parrot from a genus Rhynchopsitta

#### Declension
## Old Tupi
### Alternative forms

Historical spellings :
| Anchieta (1555) | arara |
| Thevet (1575) | arat |
| Léry (1578) | arat |
| Marcgrave (1648) | arara |

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *arar, from Proto-Tupian *arat. Doublet of ará.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [aˈɾa.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -aɾa
* Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra

### Noun

arara (unpossessable)
* macaw
    Synonym: ará
** c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L$^{ço}$ [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 75v, lines 708–712; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 142:ſarau. […] To, añe, baepeque / caninde obi yaçoara? / Doyabij muru arara. Aimb. Caraibebe ae / morojubica ponitara.[Saraû[aîa:] […] Tó, anhẽ, mba'epe ké / kanindeoby îasûara? / Nd'oîabyî muru arara. Aîmb[iré:] Karaibebé a'e / moroîubyka pûaîtara.]Sarauaia: “Oh! Truly, what looks like a blue ara here? The bastard is no different than a macaw”. Aimbiré: “He's the angel that orders the hanging”.

#### Related terms

* ararakanga
* araruna
* Ararusuaîa
* araryba
* araso'iá
* marakanãarara

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: arara
* → Portuguese: arara
** >? Saramaccan: alála

### References

* André Thevet (1575) chapter IX, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 929v: “Arat”
* Jean de Léry (1578) chapter XI, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 170: “Arat”
* Fernão Cardim (p. 1583) “A Treatiſe of Braſil, written by a Portugall which had long lived there”, in Samuel Purchas, transl., Francis Cooke, compiler, Pvrchas his Pilgrimes, part IV, book VII, chapter I § 4 (overall work in English), London: H. Fetherston, published 1625, page 1304: “Arara”
* Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter LXXX, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 226: “Arára”
* Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter VI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 270: “Arara”

### Further reading

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “arara”, 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 59, column 2
* Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 266

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈɾa.ɾɐ/
* (Brazil) IPA: /aˈɾa.ɾɐ/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /aˈɾa.ɾa/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ɐˈɾa.ɾɐ/
* Rhymes: -aɾɐ
* Hyphenation: a‧ra‧ra

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi arara.

#### Noun

arara f (plural araras)
* macaw
    Synonym: ará
* clothes rack

##### Derived terms

* arara-azul
* arara-canindé
* arara-de-santa-cruz
* arara-militar
* arara-vermelha
* ararinha
* pau de arara

##### Related terms

* araracanga
* ararapiranga

##### Descendants

* >? Saramaccan: alála

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

arara
* first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of arar

### Further reading

* “arara”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
* “arara”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
* “arara” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
* “arara”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* “arara”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
* “arara”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aˈɾaɾa/ [aˈɾa.ɾa]
* Rhymes: -aɾa
* Syllabification: a‧ra‧ra

### Verb

arara
* first/third-person singular imperfect subjunctive of arar

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* ràrá

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ā.ɾà.ɾá/

### Noun

aràrá
* (somewhat derogatory) dwarf

#### Coordinate terms

* òmìrán (“giant”)