Pernambuco

Borrowed from Portuguese Pernambuco.

 

Pernambuco

1. A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife

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Pernambuco (uncountable)

1. The hard, reddish wood of a tree of the tribe Caesalpinieae, often used as dyewood; especially Paubrasilia echinata, used to make violin bows.
   • 1998 July, Strad:

     When I annealed the bows over heat, the smell was quite different from the Pernambuco wood we are used to.

   • 2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:

     [P]ernambucco – the finest brasil from Brazil, so strong it almost resembles iron – became the favoured material for good bows.

Pernambuco m

1. A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife
2. Timbuktu, a distant or remote place

 

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

Pernambuco

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Uncertain. Different origins are proposed, including:

• Old Tupi paranãbuku ("long river") or para’nã ("river") + buka ("hole").
• Pernão Boca or Pernambuka, approximations of how natives referred to "Boca de Fernão", an old name for the Santa Cruz channel.

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛʁ.nɐ̃.ˈbu.ku/

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Pernambuco m

1. A state of the Northeast Region, Brazil. Capital: Recife

   Synonym: PE (abbreviation)

• pernambucano (demonym)

• (states of Brazil) estado do Brazil; Acre, Alagoas, Amapá, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Pará, Paraíba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Santa Catarina, São Paulo, Sergipe, Tocantins ^{(Category: pt:States of Brazil)}