maada

See also: maadá

Maquiritari

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [maːɾ̠a]

Noun

maada

  1. herb(s) used for magical purposes

Derived terms
  • kawadi maadadü

References
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 35, 57–58, 62, 63, 79, 108, 128, 227, 240, 244
  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 220
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