tucuxi

English

Etymology

    Borrowed from Portuguese tucuxi, borrowed from Nheengatu tukuxí, possibly from Old Tupi pukusĩ.

    Noun

    tucuxi (plural tucuxis)

    1. A freshwater dolphin, estuarine dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis, found in the rivers of the Amazon Basin

    Translations

    Portuguese

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Nheengatu tukuxí, possibly from Old Tupi pukusĩ.[1]

      Pronunciation

      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tu.kuˈʃi/

      • Rhymes: -i
      • Hyphenation: tu‧cu‧xi

      Noun

      tucuxi m (plural tucuxis)

      1. tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis)
        Synonyms: boto-cinza, pirajaguara
        • 1893 January 17, Lourenço da Fonseca, chapter IV, No Amazonas, in Diario de Manáos, volume III, number 83, page 2, column 1:
          — Come-se o tucuxy? perguntei eu ao comandante.
          — Não. A carne é malcheirosa e de gosto desagradavel. Do tucuxy só se aproveita o azeite.
          “Do people eat the tucuxi?” I asked the commander.
          “No. The meat is smelly and has a unpleasant taste. From the tucuxi only the oil is useful.”
        • 1969 June 22, Luiz Medeiros, “O Maravilhoso Mundo dos Cetáceos”, in Jornal do Commercio, volume LXIV, number 20.126, Carderno de literatura, page 20, column 4:
          Falou-nos, também, que um tucuxi de dois metros pode produzir, extraído da sua gordura, uns oitos litros de óleo bem grosso.
          He also told us that a two-meter-long tucuxi can produce, extracting from its fat, about eight liters of very thick oil.
        • 2021 October 4, João Paulo Vicente, “Quantos botos há na Amazônia?”, in National Geographic: Brasil‎[1], archived from the original on 11 March 2022:
          Também por ali, grupos de tucuxis pulavam animados, alguns com o corpo inteiro para fora da água.
          Around there, there were also groups of tucuxis that jumped cheerfuly, some with their whole body out of water.

      Descendants

      • → English: tucuxi

      References

      1. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “tukuxí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 768

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