agûará

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awara.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /awaˈra/, [a.ɡʷaˈɾa]

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: a‧gûa‧rá

Noun

agûará (unpossessable)

1. (hapax) maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

   Synonym: agûaragûasu

   Aîukaukar agûará Pedro supé. ― I led Pedro to kill the maned wolf.

   Xe gûatáreme agûará xe repîaki. ― The maned wolf saw me as I was walking.

   Agûaráramo ereîkó. ― You are a maned wolf.

Coordinate terms

• canids: agûará/agûaragûasu · îagûapytanga · îagûara/îagûamimbaba/eŷmbaba îagûara ^[edit]

Related terms

• agûaragûasu
• agûarakynhusu
• agûarakyîa

Descendants

• Nheengatu: awará
• Brazilian Portuguese: → aguará, ⇒ lobo-guará

References

• John Maurice of Nassau (1660) Theatrum Rerum Naturalium Brasiliae (overall work in Latin); republished as Christian Mentzel, editor, volume II, São Paulo: Index, 1993, page 34

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• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûará”, 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 14, column 1