jararaca

English

jararaca

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

Noun

jararaca (plural jararacas)

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:
  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

Guaraní: jarara
Hunsrik: Scharack f
Polish: żararaka (pl) f
Portuguese: jararaca f

References

jararaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Bothrops jararaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Bothrops jararaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

carajara

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi îararaka.[1]

Pronunciation

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

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ.ɾɐˈɾa.kɐ/

Noun

jararaca f (plural jararacas)

jararaca

Descendants

→ English: jararaca
→ Polish: żararaka

References

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013), “îararaka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 161, column 2

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