abá

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "aba"

Chaná

Pronunciation

  • /a'βa/

Preposition

abá

  1. in
    • Numít abá ianá
      • cooking in fat
  2. in the middle of; among
    • abá atamá
      • in between rivers

Old Tupi

abá (sense 3)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.

Cognate with Guaraní ava.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧bá

Noun

abá (unpossessable)

  1. man (male human)
  2. man (human, a person regardless of gender or sex)
  3. (strictly) Indigenous person
    Abá peró supé onhe'eng.
    The Indigenous folks talked to the Portuguese.
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço , Niterói, page 48; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
      — Abá ra'yrape ûĩ?!
      — Sé! Abá ra'yra, ipó...
      — Whose sons are these?!
      — No idea! Sons of Indigenous people, definitely...

Synonyms

Derived terms

Pronoun

abá

  1. (interrogative) what; which
  2. someone, anyone
    Ké abá rekóû anhẽ.
    Someone is certainly here.
  3. nobody, no one
    N'opytáî amõ abá maranápe.
    There was no one left at the battlefield.

Synonyms

Pronoun

abá (plural abaabá)

  1. (interrogative) who
    Abápe nde? ― Who are you?

References

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎ (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
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