Meaning

noun a light brown raw cane sugar from Guyana

noun a river in northern Guyana that flows northward into the Atlantic

noun a former Dutch colony in South America; now a part of Guyana

originThe placename derives from an Arawak word. Perhaps Malali ("fast running stream"), which would have originally been the name of a section of rapids, from which the Dutch called the whole river de Malali ("the Malali"), which (with incorporation of the definite article into the name, and alternation of l and r) became Demerara. Alternatively, perhaps Immenary or Dumaruni meaning “river of the…

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