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Guaraní
Proper noun
Tupã
- (Christianity) God
Old Tupi
Etymology
From tupã (“thunder”).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Tupã
- Tupã (a Tupian deity, the personification of thunder)
- (Christianity, Late Tupi) God
1645 October 21, Diogo Pinheiro Camarão, Letter to Baltazar Araberana, Gaspar Cararu, Jandaia and Pedro Valadin (Camarão Indians' letters; 6), page 2:[…] peẽ Christam ramo pereco roije / Coy peẽ pecanhema rece natecatupe Erimae Chris/tam recou Paitupa raucuba peabo rau- [Peẽ cristão-ramo pe rekoruînhẽ. Ko'y peẽ, pe kanhema resé, naeté katupe. Erima'e cristão rekóû, Pa'i Tupã raûsuba pe'abo ra'u.]
- You, as Christians, are sick. Now you, for your doom, are the most vunerable. In the past you were Christians, but you sadly left Lord God's love.
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Paraguayan Guaraní
Pronunciation
Noun
Tupã
- God (in Christianity)
- Tupã, Tupavẽ, Tenondete (in Guaraní mythology)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi Tupã.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃
- Hyphenation: Tu‧pã
Proper noun
Tupã m
- the god of thunder in Tupi mythology
Proper noun
Tupã f
- A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil