Perana

Borrowed from Portuguese Fernandes, from Old Galician-Portuguese Fernandez, from Fernando + -ez.

• IPA^(key): /peɾana/, [pɛ̃ˈɾ̃ãnə]
• Rhymes: -ana

Perana

1. (hapax legomenon) a surname from Portuguese
   • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, “[Na Aldeia de Guaraparim] [In the Village of Guaraparim]” (chapter LXIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Guarapari, page 154, lines 513–523; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 292:

     I. Marape dererocaba / abare reminõgoera

     Al. Eracicu perera angaba / caraiba rubixaba / quirimurepe ndaroera. // Aere / Abaregoaçu abe / onong Vacicu perana / Coutinho tunhabae / aipo tera xearoana, / ae aromanonhe.

     [[Diabo] I. Marãpe nde rerokaba, abaré reminongûera?

     Al[ma]. Erasiku Perera-angaba, karaíba rubixaba Kyrymurependarûera. A'e ré, abaregûasu abé onong Ûasyku Perana Coutinho tunhaba'e. Aîpo tera xe arõana, a'e aromanõ nhẽ.]

     1st Devil: What is your baptismal name, that the priest put on you?

     Soul: [That of ] the good Francisco Pereira, chief of the whites who was in All Saints’ Bay. After that, the bishop also gave me [that of ] the old Vasco Fernandes Coutinho. That is the name that suits me, it is with it that I will die.