Araruna

From araruna.

• IPA^(key): /aɾaˈɾũna/
• Homophone: araruna
• Rhymes: -ũna

Araruna

1. (hapax legomenon) a male given name
   • [1663, Simão de Vasconcellos, Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Noticias antecedentes (book II) (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 98, column 2:

     Da meſma maneira dos Potigoares, hum antiguo Potigoaçú, Guiràopina, Arârúna, Cerobabé, Meirúguaçu, Ibátatá, Abaiquija, todos famoſos, & Principaes de grandes Pouos […]

     The same [can be said] of the Potiguara, an ancient Potĩgûasu, Gûyraopina, Araruna, Serobabé, Meîrugûasu, 'Ybatatã, Abaykyîa, all of them famous and chieftains of great peoples.]

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Araruna”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 60, column 1

From Old Tupi arara (“macaw”) + una (“black”).^[1]

Araruna f

1. Araruna (a town and municipality of Paraná, Brazil)