marika

See also: Marika

'Are'are

Noun

marika

1. fish

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Cebuano

Etymology

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

From ari +‎ ka.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧ka

Interjection

marika

1. come here; come over here

Old Tupi

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese barriga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maɾika/
• Rhymes: -ika
• Hyphenation: ma‧ri‧ka

Noun

marika (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. belly

   Synonyms: amby, ygé

Descendants

• Nheengatu: marika

References

• Arronches, João de (1739), “BARRIGA”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 127: “marica”
• Frei Onofre (1751), “BARRIGA”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 19, column 1: “Maríca”
• Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Barriga”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 7, column 1, line 47; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 119: “mariga”
• anonymous author (c. 1757), “BARRIGA”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] [Brazilian-Portuguese Vocabulary] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica [Chrestomathy of the Brazilian language], Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 23: “marica”
• anonymous author (18th century), “Barriga. vazio. ventrecha”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎ (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 37: “Marîca”

Swahili

Pronunciation

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Noun

marika

1. plural of rika