ymbaba

Old Tupi

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɨ̃ˈmba.βa]
  • Rhymes: -aβa
  • Hyphenation: y‧mba‧ba

Noun

ymbaba (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tymbaba, R1 rymbaba, R2 symbaba)

  1. alternative form of eŷmbaba
    • 1686 [1618], Antônio de Araújo, chapter 7, in Bartolomeu de Leão, editor, Cateciſmo Braſilico da Doutrina Chriſtãa [Brazilian Catechism of the Christian Doctrine], 2 edition, Cateciſmo […] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, page 108:
      Abá mbäé mombucâpa, abá rymbâbâ iucâbo, abá mundéçûpa ipórôca.
      [Abá mba'e mombukapa, abá rymbaba îukábo, abá mundé supa, i poroka.]
      Destroying someone's things, killing someone's livestock, visiting someone's traps, and emptying them.
    • 1686 [1618], Antônio de Araújo, chapter 7, in Bartolomeu de Leão, editor, Cateciſmo Braſilico da Doutrina Chriſtãa [Brazilian Catechism of the Christian Doctrine], 2 edition, Cateciſmo […] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, page 108:
      Oapixâra rymbâba iagoâra remimomocẽgoéra, coipó cemijucá poéra raçâra.
      [O apixara rymbaba îagûara remimomosẽgûera, koîpó semiîukapûera rasara.]
      Those who take what the domesticated dog of their peer has chased, or what it has killed.
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