Jandira
Said to come from a Tupi word connected with a honey-producing bee, though the exact root has not been settled.
Meaning and origin
Jandira is a Brazilian girl's name of Tupi background, part of the same nineteenth- and twentieth-century taste for indigenous-rooted names that gave Brazil Jacira and Juraci.
How to pronounce Jandira
| Portuguese (Brazil) | zhahn-DEE-rah /ʒɐ̃ˈdiɾɐ/ |
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