jacarandá

See also: jacaranda and Jacaranda

Portuguese

jacarandás

Etymology

From Old Tupi yacaranda.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʒa.ka.ɾɐ̃ˈda/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ʒɐ.kɐ.ɾɐ̃ˈda/

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ja‧ca‧ran‧dá

Noun

jacarandá m (plural jacarandás)

1. jacaranda (the tree of the genus Jacaranda)

Descendants

• → Catalan: xicranda
• → English: jacaranda

Further reading

• “jacarandá”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xakaɾanˈda/ [xa.ka.ɾãn̪ˈd̪a]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ja‧ca‧ran‧dá

Noun

jacarandá m (plural jacarandás)

1. jacaranda (any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers)

Further reading

• “jacarandá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014