tubarão
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See also: Tubarão
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Probably from Old Tupi tubaram, perhaps from older uperú,[1] iperú, with the addition of an initial t- under the influence of another native word (possibly from a different language family like Arawakan).[2]
Compare Spanish tiburón, Galician tabeirón, Catalan tauró.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: tu‧ba‧rão
Noun
[edit]tubarão m (plural tubarões)
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “tubarão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “tubarão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- tubarão on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt