caburé
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Portuguese
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi kaburé.[1]
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: ca‧bu‧ré
Noun
caburé m (plural caburés)
- (Brazil, broadly) pygmy owl (any of various species of small owl from the genus Glaucidium)
- (Brazil, strictly) ferruginous pygmy owl (Glaucidium brasilianum)
- (Brazil) burrowing owl (small owl of the Americas that lives in holes, Athene cunicularia)
- Synonyms: coruja-buraqueira, urucureia
References
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kaburé”, 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 211, column 1
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
caburé m (plural caburés)
- pygmy owl (any of various species of small owl from the genus Glaucidium)
Further reading
- “caburé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28