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

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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