îagûarapeba

Old Tupi

Etymology

Possibly cognate with Guaraní jagua pe.

Noun

îagûarapeba (unpossessable)

  1. synonym of îagûapopeba
    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter CI, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 230:
      Criam-se nos rios de agua doce outros bichos, que se parecem com lontras de Portugal, a que o gentio chama jagoarapeba, que tem o cabello preto, e tão macio como velludo. São do tamanho de um gozo, tem a cabeça como de gato, e a boca muito rasgada e vermelha por dentro e nos dentes grandes prezas, as pernas curtas. Andam sempre n’agua, onde criam e parem muitos filhos e onde se mantem dos peixes que tomam e de camarões: não sahem nunca fóra da agua, onde gritam quando vem gente ou outro bicho.
      In the freshwater rivers there are other animals that look like Portugal's otters, which the natives call “îagûarapeba”. They have black fur, as soft as velvet. They are the size of a mongrel, have a cat-like head, their mouth is very large and red inside, having big fangs, and have short legs. They always walk in the water, were they live and have many pups, and where they feed on fish and shrimps they catch: they never get out of the water, where they cry when people or other animal comes.]

Further reading

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.