pokaba

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Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Coined by Spanish Jesuit missionary Joseph of Anchieta in the 16th century, from poka (“explosion”) +‎ -ab (instrumentalizer suffix) +‎ -a, literally “explosion instrument”.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔˈka.βa/,
  • Rhymes: -aβa
  • Hyphenation: po‧ka‧ba

Noun

pokaba (possessable, Ib class pluriform, absolute mokaba)

  1. firearm
    • 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter XX, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, pages 124–125:
      T. — Esse non bat
      F. — Coromo
      T. — Neîn.
      F. — Mocap […] Mororocap […] Mocap-coui […] Mocap-couiourou […]
      [T. — Esenõî mbá
      F. — Koromõ
      T. — Ne'ĩ.
      F. — Mokaba […] Mororokaba […] Mokaku'i […] Mokaku'iuru […] ]
      T. — Name everything.
      F. — Just a moment.
      T. — Alright.
      F. — Firearms, bombards, gunpowder, gunpowder containers.
  2. cannon; bombard
    Synonyms: pororokaba, pokaboby, pokabusu
  3. (by extension) shot (the result of launching a projectile)
    Synonym: pororokaba

Derived terms

nouns

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: mukawa

References

  • anonymous author (1622) “Bombarda”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 57
  • anonymous author (1622) “Tiro de fogo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 129
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mokaba”, 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 294, column 1
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