cabarú
Kariri
Alternative forms
- cabarrú, cawarrú (Pedra Branca, Sabujá)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Tupi kabaru, from Portuguese cavalo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kabaɾu/
- Rhymes: -u
Noun
cabarú (unpossessable) (Kipeá)
- (dis legomenon) horse
- 1699, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica da naçam kiriri, page 102:
- Tecri ſamandi […] cabarù
- He came bringing […] a horse
- 1698, Luis Vincencio Mamiani, Catecismo da doutrina christãa na lingua braſilica da nação kiriri, page 107:
- Dó benhé cuná kenkíché dó ſabucá bohó, dó cradzó bohó, dó carneirú bohó, dó curé bohó dó cabarú bohó diſácrírí ſembohó crobihé batí […]
- May be counted by us our new livestock whether chickens, or cattle, or sheep, or pigs, or horses, that were born in a year […]
References
- Rodrigues, Arion Dall’Igna (1942), “CABARÙ”, in “Vocabulários Português-Kirirí e Kirirí-Português [Portuguese–Kirirí and Kirirí–Portuguese vocabularies]”, in Arquivos do Museu Paranaense, volume 2 (overall work in Portuguese), page 201, column 1