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GirlIndigenous Latin American (Nahuatl, Quechua, Tupi and others)

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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