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tupinambá

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tupinam-ba
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a particular Tupi ethnic group.

name

An extinct South-American Indian language of the Tupí-Guaraní family.

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tupinambá, borrowed from Old Tupi tupinambá, possibly from tupi (“Tupi”) + anama (“nation”) + mbá (“all”).

Inflected Forms

Tupinambás (plural)

Synonyms

Old Tupi

Questions

What does tupinambá mean?
A member of a particular Tupi ethnic group.
Where does tupinambá come from?
Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese tupinambá, borrowed from Old Tupi tupinambá, possibly from tupi (“Tupi”) + anama (“nation”) + mbá (“all”).

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