Paraguay

Disputed; from Guaraní Payagua (“Pajagua tribe”) y (“water”) or para (“river”) guái (“crown”) or para (“river”) gua (“from”) y (“water”).

The Paraguay River, a river in South America that flows into the Paraná, through Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Argentina.


Amazonas

→⇒ Ye'kwana: Amasonanña


Sergipe

From Brazilian Portuguese Sergipe, from an Old Tupi term meaning "river of the crab".


Sergipe

Borrowed from Old Tupi seriîype (“at the crab river”).


Amazon

From Spanish, Río Amazonas. It is common belief that the Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana fought a battle against a tribe of Tapuya natives, in which the women fought alongside the men, and that he derived the name from the Amazons in Greek mythology.

(sometimes attributive) A river in South America, that flows through Brazil for about 4000 miles to the Atlantic.


Madeira

From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.

A river in Amazonas, Brazil, a tributary of the Amazon.


Madeira

lt-proper noun

Madeirà f (uncountable) stress pattern 2

Madeirà (canonical feminine stress-pattern-2)
Madeirà (nominative)
Madeĩros (genitive)
Madeĩrai (dative)
Madeĩrą (accusative)
Madeirà (instrumental)
Madeĩroje (locative)
Madeĩra (vocative)

Borrowed from Portuguese Madeira, from madeira (“wood”).

Madeira (a river in Amazonas, Brazil, a tributary of the Amazon).


Амазонка

ru-proper noun+

Амазо́нка • (Amazónka) f inan (genitive Амазо́нки)

Амазо́нка (canonical)
Amazónka (romanization)
Амазо́нки (genitive)
Амазо́нка (nominative singular)
Амазо́нки (genitive singular)
Амазо́нке (dative singular)
Амазо́нку (accusative singular)
Амазо́нкой (instrumental singular)
Амазо́нкою (instrumental singular)
Амазо́нке (prepositional singular)

the Amazon (a major river in Brazil, Colombia and Peru)


Xingu

A major river in Brazil that flows north into the Amazon delta.


Roosevelt

From Dutch roos (“rose”) + veld (“field”).

A river in Brazil, formerly named the River of Doubt but named after Theodore Roosevelt following his 1913-14 expedition there.


Amazonka

Amazonka (nominative singular)
Amazonky (genitive singular)
Amazonce (dative singular)
Amazonku (accusative singular)
Amazonko (singular vocative)
Amazonce (locative singular)
Amazonkou (instrumental singular)

the Amazon, Amazon River (a major river in Brazil, Colombia and Peru)


Amazonka

Amazonka (nominative singular)
Amazonki (genitive singular)
Amazonce (dative singular)
Amazonkę (accusative singular)
Amazonką (instrumental singular)
Amazonce (locative singular)
Amazonko (singular vocative)

Amazon (a river in Brazil, Colombia and Peru)


Tamanduateí

A river in São Paulo, in southeastern Brazil.


Maracanã

Maracanã Stadium
pt:Maracanã (desambiguação)

/mɐ.ɾɐ.kɐˈnɐ̃/

From Guaraní maraka'nã (“mini-macaw”, a local bird).

der

A river the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


São Francisco

From Portuguese São Francisco (“Saint Francis”). Doublet of San Francisco.


São Francisco

[ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃ fɾɐ̃ˈsis.ku]

[ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃ fɾɐ̃ˈsis.ku]

[ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃ fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃ.ku]

[ˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃ fɾɐ̃ˈsis.ko]


Abunã

Abuna (a river in South America, in the border between Bolivia and Brazil)


Jequitinhonha

Of indigenous origin meaning “large river full of fish”.

A river in Minas Gerais and Bahia, Brazil.


Candói

After Candoy, leader of a Kaingang tribe.


Lajeado

→ Hunsrik: Lascheaate

From lajeado, in reference to Rio Taquari.


Camboriú

According to Navarro, from Old Tupi kamburi'y (“snook river”). The city was named after the river.


Carioca

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese carioca.

etymon

The Carioca River, a river in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil.


Carioca

Carioca (a river in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)


Taquaruçu

Mato Grosso do Sul
Mato Grosso do Sul#English


Apodi

Rio Grande do Norte
Rio Grande do Norte#English


Águas Claras

A river in Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil


Parnaíba

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Parnaíba.

bor+

A river in Brazil, forming the border between the states of Maranhão and Piauí.


Solimões

→ English: Solimões

→ Nheengatu: Surimãu, Surimã

From one of the exonyms of the Yurimagua people.


Caí

Uncertain. Different origins are proposed, including:
* From Old Tupi ka'a (“woods”) + y (“river”); and
* From Old Tupi ka'i (“monkey”), perhaps with the contraction of y (“river”). Compare Guaraní ka'i.

Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul#English


Kariîooka

desctree

→ Brazilian Portuguese: carioca
→ English: Carioca

Carioca (a river in Guanabara bay, São Vicente captaincy, Brazil)


Mundaú

A river in Pernambuco and Alagoas, Brazil


Kayarí

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Caiari

[…]yawram pa kua caiarí waraita see tapinum kuemaité[…]

2015, Hermes Plácido, “Pituna yumpirungá [Origin of the night]”, in Leetra Indígena, volume 1, number 17, São Carlos: UFSCar, →ISSN, page 67; text written in São Gabriel da Cachoeira:

For this reason, they say, the people of the Uaupés like to fart in the morning.


Paranawasú

From paranawasú (literally “big river”).

(Rio Negro, colloquial) Rio Negro (a river in Brazil)


Surimãu

Aé raá, paá, u mehê iupurungaua cuá yané paraná Sorimáo, aé, yacy reçá iuquicé.

1890 [1872–1887], “Sorimáo u ypirungaua [The origin of Solimões]” (chapter I), in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, page 212:

They say that it was the Moon's tears gave origin to our Solimões River.


Tupayú

Ellipsis of Tupayú Paraná (literally “Tapajó's river”).

ellipsis

Tapajós (a tributary of the Amazon, Brazil)


Paraná Pixuna

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Paraná-Pixuna

(archaic) Paraná-Pixuna (a river in Brazil)


Isana

Iuaka iypyrungápe, paá, oiukuau Isána paranáme iepé kurumiuasu irumo iepé kunhãmuku, mukũe ué puranga.

a. 1926, “Mira Baré [Baré People]” (chapter III), in Antonio Brandão de Amorim, editor, compiled by Maximiano José Roberto, Lendas em Nheêngatú e em Portuguez (overall work in Portuguese), Manaus; republished as Revista do Instituto Historico e Geographico Brasileiro, volume 154, number 100, Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa Nacional, 1928, page 149, line 1:

In the world's beginning, they say, a boy and a girl appeared in the Içana River; both were very beautiful.

Içana (a tributary of the Rio Negro, Brazil)


Kuparí

→ Brazilian Portuguese: Cupari

Cupari River (a tributary of the Tapajós, Pará, Brazil)