carrao

English

Etymology

From American Spanish carrao, from Guaraní [Term?] car(r)aú, carao, caraó,[1] originally probably imitative. Compare courlan, from a Cariban language.

Noun

carrao (plural carraos)

  1. The limpkin, a bird.

Alternative forms

References
  1. Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech (University of Alabama Press, 1939), page 257

Anagrams

Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Guaraní [Term?].[1]

Noun

carrao m (plural carraos)

  1. limpkin (Aramus guarauna)

References
  1. Luis Hernández Aquino, Diccionario de voces indígenas de Puerto Rico (1993): "Carrao. (Del guaraní caráu.) Aramus picus picus."

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