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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awara.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /awaˈra/,
- Rhymes: -a
- Hyphenation: a‧gûa‧rá
Noun
agûará (unpossessable)
- (hapax) maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)
- Synonym: agûaragûasu
- Aîuká-ukar agûará Pedro supé. ― I led Pedro to kill the maned wolf.
- Xeûatáreme aûará xerepîaki. ― The maned wolf saw me as I was walking.
- Agûará-ramo ereîkó. ― You are a maned wolf.
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Descendants
References
- John Maurice of Nassau (1660) Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae (overall work in Latin); republished as Christian Mentzel, editor, volume II, São Paulo: Index, 1993, page 34
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- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûará”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 14, column 1