Tupã

See also: tupa and túpa

Guaraní

Proper noun

Tupã

1. (Christianity) God

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• Tupana

Etymology

From tupã (“thunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuˈpã]
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: Tu‧pã
• Homophone: tupã

Proper noun

Tupã

1. Tupã (a Tupian deity, the personification of thunder)
2. (Christianity, Late Tupi) God
   • 1557, Hans Staden, chapter 20, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:

     Ne mungitta dee Tuppan do Quabe anamaſu y an dee Imme Ranni me ſiſe […]

     [Emongetá nde Tupã t'okûab é amanusu îandé momarane'yma resé […] ]

     Ask your God to truly make the storm pass so that it does not harm us.

   • 1645 October 21, Diogo Pinheiro Camarão, Letter to Baltazar Araberana, Gaspar Cararu, Jandaia and Pedro Valadin (Camarão Indians' letters; 6), page 2:

     […] peẽ Christam ramo pereco roije / Coy peẽ pecanhema rece natecatupe Erimae Chris/tam recou Paitupa raucuba peabo rau

     [Peẽ cristão-ramo pe rekoruînhẽ. Ko'y peẽ, pe kanhema resé, naeté katupe. Erima'e cristão rekóû, Pa'i Tupã raûsuba pe'abo ra'u.]

     You, as Christians, are sick. Now you, for your doom, are the most vunerable. In the past you were Christians, but you sadly left Lord God's love.

Derived terms

• Tupã Ta'yra
• Tupã Tuba
• tupãar
• tupãerogûatá
• tupãmongetá
• tupãoka
• tupãrara
• tupãrerobîasare'yma
• tupãrorypaba
• tupãypy
• tupãîoapyra

Descendants

• Nheengatu: Tupana, Tupã, Tupá
• → Kariri: Tupã
• → Portuguese: Tupã

References

• Simão de Vasconcellos (1663) Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Livro segundo, das noticias curiosas, antecedentes, das cousas do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Lisboa: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 107, column 2: “Tupà [Tupã]”

Paraguayan Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈpã/

Noun

Tupã

1. God (in Christianity)
2. Tupã, Tupavẽ, Tenondete (in Guaraní mythology)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi Tupã.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈpɐ̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈpɐ̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃
• Hyphenation: Tu‧pã

Proper noun

Tupã m

1. the god of thunder in Tupi mythology

Proper noun

Tupã f

1. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil