ûyrapara

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • urapara, ybyrapara
Historical spellings 
d'Abbeville (1614) ouyrapar

Noun

ûyrapara (possessable)

  1. (archery) bow
    Synonym: îurupara
    • 1622, anonymous author, “Armar arco, ou bêsta”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 1 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 41; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
      Aurapapirar.
      I draw the bow.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: mirapara

References

  • Claude d'Abbeville (1614) chapter XLIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 288v:Ouyrapar [Ûyrapar[a]]
  • anonymous author (1622) “Arco de tirar”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 40:Igbirâpara [] Urapara [Ybyrapara [] Urapara]
  • João de Arronches (1739) “ARCO DE FLEXA”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 109:gorápára [gûyrapara?]
  • Frei Onofre (1751) “Arco da frecha”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 15, column 1:Uira pára
  • Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Arco de atirar”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 5v, column 1, line 8; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 113:ybyràpara [ybyrapara]
  • anonymous author (c. 1757) “Arco”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 18:ybŷra pâra [ybyrapara]
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ûyrapara”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 505, column 1