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abá

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Chaná

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Pronunciation

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  • /a'βa/

Preposition

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abá

  1. in
    • Numít abá ianá
      • cooking in fat
  2. in the middle of; among
    • abá atamá
      • in between rivers

Old Tupi

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abá (sense 3)

Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.[1]

Cognate with Guaraní ava.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [aˈβ̞a]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧bá

Noun

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abá (unpossessable)

  1. man (male human)
  2. man (human, a person regardless of gender or sex)
  3. (strictly) Indigenous person
    Abá peró supé onhe'eng.
    The Indigenous folks talked to the Portuguese.
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 48; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
      — Abá ra'yrape ûĩ?!
      — Sé! Abá ra'yra, ipó...
      — Whose sons are these?!
      — No idea! Sons of Indigenous people, definitely...

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Pronoun

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abá

  1. (interrogative) what; which
  2. someone, anyone
    abá rekóû anhẽ.
    Someone is certainly here.
  3. nobody, no one
    N'opytáî amõ abá maranápe.
    There was no one left at the battlefield.

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Pronoun

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abá (plural abaabá)

  1. (interrogative) who
    Abápe nde?Who are you?

References

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  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC