ybyryba

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • byrybá
Historical spellings 
Marcgrave (1648) ibiruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɨ.βɨˈɾɨ.βɐ]
  • Rhymes: -ɨβa
  • Hyphenation: y‧by‧ry‧ba

Noun

ybyryba (?) (dis legomena)

  1. tree of the species Eugenia ligustrina[1]
    • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book III, chapter XVII (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 132:
      Ibirvba Braſilienſibus. Arbor cortice, ligno & naſcendi modo Guajabæ ſimilis, ramos autem habet ut noſtra Ceraſus.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
  2. a plant in the family Annonaceae.[1] Further details are uncertain.
    • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter LXVIII, 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 197:
      Ha uma arvore meã, que se chama ibiriba, de que se fazem esteios para os engenhos, tirantes e frechaes, e outra obra de casas, tirando taboado por ser má de serrar.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: wiriwá
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: biribá, beribá

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “ybyryba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil ] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 523, column 2
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