Etymology

Solimões

Today it means: Upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru. Full definition →

Portuguese Solimões
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  1. Portuguese · borrowed fromSolimões
  2. English todaySolimões

Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Solimões.

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