agûará

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Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.(ɣ)waˈra/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧gûa‧rá

Noun

agûará (unpossessable)

  1. (hapax legomenon) maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)
    Synonym: agûaragûasu
    Aîukaukar agûará Pedro supé. ― I led Pedro to kill the maned wolf.
    Xe gûatáreme agûará xe repîaki. ― The maned wolf saw me as I was walking.
    Agûaráramo ereîkó. ― You are a maned wolf.

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: awará
  • Brazilian Portuguese: → aguará, ⇒ lobo-guará

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 (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 14, column 1
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