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单词 piaba
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piaban.

Forms: 1600s–1800s piaba, 1800s piabá.
Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Etymon: Portuguese piaba.
Etymology: < Portuguese piaba (1587) < Tupi pi'au̯a. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (piˌā·bă) /piːˈɑːbə/.
Obsolete.
Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Characidae, found in Brazilian rivers and valued for food.
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1648 G. Marggraf Historiae Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae 170 Piaba Brasiliensibus; magnitudine nostratis Eldrize..pisciculus 2 aut 3 digitos longus.]
1686 F. Willughby & J. Ray De Hist. Piscium iv. xxxiv. 269 (heading) Piaba Brasiliensibus Marggrav.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Piaba,..the name of a small fresh-water fish..in the Brasils..a well-tasted fish, and much esteemed by the Natives.
1763 R. Brookes New Syst. Nat. Hist. III. xx. 192 The Piaba of the Brasilians, is of the size of our Pink, being sometimes above three inches long.
1869 R. F. Burton Explor. Highlands Brazil II. 13 They can catch half-a-dozen sprat-like ‘piabas’ or ‘piaus’ by heaving up a calabash full of water.
1888 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 10 77 At times we had good fishing, surubim being the largest species that we caught, and piáu, piabá, and piabanha the most tasty.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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