sûasuarana

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
d'Abbeville (1614) souässouäran
VLB (1622) cîgoaçuarana
Marcgrave (1648) cuguacuarana

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [swa.su.aˈɾã.nɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ãna
  • Hyphenation: sûa‧su‧a‧ra‧na

Noun

sûasuarana (unpossessable)

  1. cougar (Puma concolor)
    Synonym: îagûapytangusu
    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter XCVI, 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 226:
      Ha outra alimaria, a que o gentio chama suçuarana, que é do tamanho de um rafeiro, tem o cabello comprido e macio, o rabo como cão, o rosto carrancudo, as mãos como rafeiro, mas tem maiores unhas e mui agudas e voltadas; […] e pela terra dentro as ha muito maiores que na visinhança do mar.
      Theres another animal that the natives call “susuarana”, which is the size of a guard dog, has long and soft fur, a dog-like tail, a scowly façe, guard-dog-like hands, but with longer, very sharp and curved nails; […] and going towards the interior, they are much larger than the ones near the sea.]
    • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XLI, 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] (quotation in Old Tupi; overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 251v:
      Le Souäſſouäran eſpece de Leopard eſt grand comme le precedent, ayant auſſi la peau toute marquetée & eſt vn animal fortfurieux.
      The “sûasuaran[a]” is a species of leopard that is as big as the previous one [jaguar], having also inlaid fur and it's a very enraged animal.]
    • [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 254:
      Tambem ha outra sorte desta mesma especie, de menor corpo, a que chamam susurana, que costuma de matar alguns bezerros e gado miudo. Não são tão damninhos como os outros.
      There's also another kind of the same species [jaguar], of a smaller body, that they call “susurana”, which tends to kill some calfs and small cattle. They aren't as harmful as the others.]
    • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VI, chapter X (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 235:
      Cvgvacvarana Braſilienſibus, Tigre Luſitanis, alia eſt illius ſpecies.
      “Sugûasuarana” from Brazil, Tigre for the Portuguese, is another species of it [jaguar].]

Coordinate terms

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Descendants

  • Nheengatu: suasuarana
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: suçuarana, Suassurana

References

  • anonymous author (1622), “Onça, ou tigre […] he na feição, e não na cor. [Jaguar or tiger, in aspect but not color.]”, 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 56: “Cîgoaçuarana [Sygûasuarana]”

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