Jacira
A Tupi compound of îaçy, "moon", and eíra, "honey", often rendered together as "honey moon".
Meaning and origin
Jacira comes from Tupi, the indigenous language once spoken along Brazil's Atlantic coast, and it reached everyday Portuguese through the taste for indigenous-sounding names that took hold among Brazilian writers and…
How to pronounce Jacira
| Portuguese (Brazil) | zhah-SEE-rah /ʒaˈsiɾɐ/ |
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