guariba

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese guariba, from Old Tupi gûariba. Other early European spellings/renderings of the same Tupian word include guariva, guariha, uariba, waariba, and in French ouarive/ouariue (which was misread as ouarine, giving rise to that word[1] and, by anglicization of it, to warine[2]).[3]

The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to araguato and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes); the New English Dictionary directs readers to compare alouatte and araguato.

Noun

guariba (plural guaribas)

  1. Any of several South American howler monkeys with prehensile tails.
    • 1865, The Boys' Journal:
      [He saw] ahead of him the carcass of a guariba. It was drifting towards them, [...]
    • 1911, Jules Verne, The five hundred millions of the begum, page 261:
      It was not a man at all, it was a guariba. Of all the prehensile-tailed monkeys which haunt the forests of the Upper Amazon the guariba is without doubt the most eccentric. Of sociable disposition, and not very savage, ...
    • 1963, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology:
      THE MAN WHO MARRIED THE GUARIBA MONKEY
      There was once a man who unknowingly married a guariba monkey in human form. The couple lived together until she grew pregnant; she then suggested a visit to her father.

References

  1. ^ New English Dictionary, volume 7, O–P (1909): ouarine
  2. ^ New English Dictionary, volume 10 part 2, V–Z (1928): warine
  3. ^ Jas. Platt, Jun., in The Athenaeum, number 3840, 1 June 1901, page 695-696

Portuguese

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi gûariba.[1]

Pronunciation

 

  • Rhymes: -ibɐ
  • Hyphenation: gua‧ri‧ba

Noun

guariba m (plural guaribas)

  1. (Brazil) howler monkey (any monkey in the genus Alouatta)
    Synonyms: bugio, barbado, macaco-uivador

Descendants

  • → English: guariba
  • → French: ouarine

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûariba”, 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 135, column 1
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