Guaratuba

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi Gûaratyba, from gûará (“scarlet ibis”) +‎ tyba (“gathering”), literally “gathering of scarlet ibises”.[1] The municipality is named after the bay. Doublet of Guaratiba.

Proper noun

Guaratuba f

  1. a municipality of Paraná, Brazil
  2. a bay of Paraná, Brazil
  3. a beach in Bertioga, São Paulo, Brazil

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Guaratiba”, 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 563, column 1

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