sabaru

Old Tupi

Etymology

    Borrowed from Portuguese sábado, from Old Galician-Portuguese sabado, from Latin sabbatum, borrowed from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew שַׁבָּת, possibly borrowed from Akkadian šapattum.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [sa.β̞aˈɾu]
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Hyphenation: sa‧ba‧ru

    Noun

    sabaru (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

    1. Saturday

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: saurú

    See also

    • days of the week: porabykyara (appendix): putu'u · porabykypy · porabykymokõî · porabykymosapyr · so'opapaba · îekuakuba · sabaru [edit]

    References

    • João de Arronches (1739) “SABADO”, 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 282:çabarú
    • Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “sabbatho”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 15, column 1, line 8; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 151:sabarù
    • anonymous author (c. 1757) “Sabbado”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 50:saberû
    • anonymous author (18th century) “ſabado”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎[1] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 61:ſabarû