karakará

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • gûaragûará

Etymology

Cognate with Guarayu and Urubú-Kaapor karakara.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /karakaˈra/, [kaˌɾa.kaˈɾa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧ka‧rá

Noun

karakará (unpossessable)

  1. southern crested caracara (Caracara plancus)[1][2]
    • [1618, Ambrósio Fernandes Brandão [attributed], “Dialogo quinto [Fifth dialogue]”, in Diálogos das grandezas do Brasil [Dialogues of Brazil's greatnesses] (in Portuguese), Paraíba; republished by ABL, Rio de Janeiro: Officina Industrial Graphica, 1930, page 223:
      […] ha outro modo de falcão ou gavião, que não sei de que especie seja, tambem mui agil pera caça, mas não tão grande, como os de que fiz menção, de que um dos taes se chama piron e outro gambia-piruéra, e outra casta a que chamão eixua, e outra semelhante, que tem por nome taguató, e outros guará-guará, e tambem guaquaque […]
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  2. tickbird (Milvago chimachima)[1]
    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter LXXXV, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 214:
      Carácará são uns passaros tamanhos como gaviões, tem as costas pretas, as azas pintadas de branco e o rabo, o bico revolto para baixo, os quaes se mantem de carrapatos, que trazem as alimarias, e de lagartixas que tomam […]
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  3. a bird of prey with featherless head. Further details are uncertain.
    • 1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 233:
      Le Karakara, eſt vn autre Oiſeau de proye grand comme vne poulle ayant la teſte toute nuë & ſans plumes, excepté qu'autour du becil ya vn petit plumage bleu: le reſte de ſes plumes ſont blanches & noires.
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Descendants

  • Nheengatu: karakará
  • → Portuguese: carcará, caracará

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 262, lines 107–108
  2. ^ anonymous author (1622), “Francelho [Kestrel]”, 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 143: “Carâcarâ [Karakará]”

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