mbetara

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Noun

mbetara (possessable, IId class pluriform, absolute mbetara, R1 rembetara, R2 sembetara, R3 o embetara)[2][3]

  1. a carved precious stone placed in a lower lip piercing as a form of male adornment; tembetá
    Coordinate terms: apûãtĩ (placed in the upper lip), tembekûaritá (placed in the cheeks)
    • 1622, anonymous author, “Pedra de beiço. gnlr. [Lip stone, generally]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 69; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
      Metarapoâ
      [Metarapûá]
      Pointy tembetá
    • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter VI (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 271:
      Viri labium inferius perforatum habent, & foramini immittunt lapidem aliquem ſen cryſtallum ſeu ſmaragdum vel jaſpidem, magnitudine nucis avellanæ, vocant talem lapidem Metara, & ſi viridis vel cæruleus fuerit Metaobi nominant. Viridem autem imprimis amant & ut plurimum geſtant.
      Men have their lips pierced and then insert some sort of stone into the hole, be it a crystal, emerald or jasper, the size of a hazelnut. They call this stone “metara” and, if green or blue, “metaroby”. They love the green ones above all others, and use them the most.]

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: tembetara
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: tembetá

References

  1. ^ Hans Staden (1557) chapter XVI, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page
  2. ^ Joseph of Anchieta (1555) chapter V, in Arte de grammatica da lingoa mais vſada na coſta do Braſil (overall work in Portuguese), Coimbra: Antonio de Mariz, published 1595, page 13v: “Ce Mbetára, tãbẽ, Tembetára. [Sembetara, also, Tembetara.]”
  3. ^ Luís Figueira (c. 1628) “Do nome Relatiuo”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brazilian language]‎[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manoel da Silva, page 42v: “Metâra. […] xeremetâra, cemetàra. [Metara. […] xe remetara, semetara.]”

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