caburé

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • caboré

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi kaburé.[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ka.buˈɾɛ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /kɐ.buˈɾɛ/ [kɐ.βuˈɾɛ]

  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: ca‧bu‧ré

Noun

caburé m (plural caburés)

  1. (Brazil, loosely) pygmy owl (any of various species of small owl from the genus Glaucidium)
  2. (Brazil, strictly) ferruginous pygmy owl (Glaucidium brasilianum)
  3. (Brazil) burrowing owl (small owl of the Americas that lives in holes, Athene cunicularia)
    Synonyms: coruja-buraqueira, urucureia

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kaburé”, 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 211, column 1

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Guaraní kavure.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kabuˈɾe/ [ka.β̞uˈɾe]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ca‧bu‧ré

Noun

caburé m (plural caburés)

  1. pygmy owl (any of various species of small owl from the genus Glaucidium)

Further reading

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