kambá

See also: kamba and Kamba

Old Tupi

Etymology

Unknown. Compare Kaiwá, Mbya Guarani, and Paraguayan Guarani kamba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈma/, [kãˈᵐba]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ka‧mbá

Noun

kambá (?) (Língua Geral Paulista)

  1. (dis legomenon) Black person
    Synonym: tapy'yîuna

Descendants

  • →? Portuguese: cambá

References

  • anonymous author (18th century), “Preto”, in Língua geral dos índios das Américas [General language of the Indians of the Americas]‎[1] (overall work in Portuguese and Língua Geral Paulista), page 3v, line 174: “Cambâ”
  • José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850), “homem preto”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, July 1936, page 136: “CAMBA’”

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