kukura

Nheengatu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuˈkura/
  • Rhymes: -ura
  • Hyphenation: ku‧ku‧ra

Noun

kukura (plural kukura-itá) (Rio Negro)

  1. Amazon grape (Pourouma cecropiifolia)
    Synonyms: mapatí, purumã (Solimões)
  2. (by extension) fruit of this tree

Derived terms

  • kukura-kurasí
  • kukura-maniiwa
  • kukuraí

Descendants

  • → Brazilian Portuguese: cucura

References

  • Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “kukura”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 400

Tumbuka

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *kʊ̀kʊ́da

Infinitive

kukura

  1. infinitive of -kura.
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