Urubu

From urubu (“vulture”).

• IPA^(key): [u.ɾuˈβ̞u]
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: U‧ru‧bu
• Homophone: urubu

Urubu

1. a male given name
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 77, lines 750–754; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 145:

     Co xe moçuranuçu / tau cori ygibapuera. / Jaguaruçu yugoera. / yacãgoera Vrubu, / Cabure çetimãbuera.

     [Kó xe musuranusu / t'a'u kori i îybapûera. / Îagûarusu i ugûera. / i akangûera Urubu, / Kaburé setymãmbûera.]

     Here's my big rope. Today I shall eat your severed arms. Îagûarusu, your severed tights and your severed head. Urubu and Kaburé, your severed legs.

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “Urubu”, 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 501, column 2