kabaru

See also: Kabaru

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
VLB (1622) cabarû

Etymology

    Borrowed from Portuguese cavalo.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [ka.βaˈɾu]
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Hyphenation: ka‧ba‧ru

    Noun

    kabaru (unpossessable) (Late Tupi)

    1. horse (Equus ferus caballus)
      • 1622, anonymous author, “Sella do caualo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume II (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 115; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
        Cabarû repanacû.
        [Kabaru repanaku.]
        Horse saddle.
      • c. 1628, Luís Figueira, “Da Prepoſição 5. parte da oração”, in Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language]‎[1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 66:
        Cabarú çoce.
        [Kabaru sosé.]
        On the horse.

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: kawarú
    • → Kariri: cabarú (Kipeá), cabarrú, cawarrú (Pedra Branca, Sabujá)

    References

    • Frei Onofre (1751), “Cavallo”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 23, column 1: “Cabarû”
    • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Cavallo”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Amazônica), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 9v, column 1, line 178; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 129: “cabarú [kabaru]”
    • anonymous author (18th century), “Cavallo”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎[2] (overall work in Língua Geral Amazônica and Portuguese), page 9v: “Cabarû”
    • anonymous author (18th century), “Cavallo”, in Língua geral dos índios das Américas [General language of the Indians of the Americas]‎[3] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Paulista), page 5v, line 307: “Cavarû”
    • Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1867), “sellar hum cavallo”, in “Diccionario de Verbos: portuguez tupi-austral e alemâo”, in Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen (Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerika’s zumal Brasiliens; II) (overall work in Portuguese and German), Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer, page 120, column 2: “ômondê áva apucá cavarú ara”

    Further reading

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