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Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *βeraβ (“lightning”).
Pronunciation
Noun
beraba (possessable)
- shine (brightness from reflected light)
- Near-synonym: endy (“shine from a source of light”)
1618, Cristóvão Valente, “Outra em louvor da Virgem”, in Antônio de Araújo, compiler, Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Cantigas na lingoa pera os mininos da Sancta Doctrina (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 2v:Otĩ coâtacî ocêma
Nde berâba roba quê
Yacî tatá cuépé ê
Ynhe mimi nde coêma
Ara rorî pábété- [Otĩ kûarasy osema / Nde beraba robaké / Îasytatá kûepe é / I nhemimi nde ko'ema / 'Ara rorypabeté]
- The sun is rising ashamed before your shine. Far away the stars hide. You are the morning, the day's true reason for happiness
- (figurative) splendor
16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Da Conceiſaõ de Noſsa ſãr” (chapter LXII), in , page 146, column 2, lines 36–40; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 276:Putunuçu porarabo
oroicotebẽ gatu
Emonanamo ereiu
oreputuna peabo
tupã beraba reru.- [Putunusu porarábo / oroîkotebẽngatu / Emonãnamo ereîu oré putuna pe'abo / Tupã beraba reru.]
- Enduring the great darkness, we are very anguished. Thus, you come to repel our darkness, bringing God's splendor.
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