gûabiraba

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡwa.βiˈɾa.βa/, [(ɡ)ʷaβiˈɾaβa]
• Rhymes: -aβa
• Hyphenation: gûa‧bi‧ra‧ba

Noun

gûabiraba (unpossessable)

1. tree of the species Campomanesia xanthocarpa
2. (loosely) any tree in the genus Campomanesia
3. the fruit of these trees

Descendants

• Nheengatu: wawirawa
• → Portuguese: gabiroba, guabiroba, gabirova, gavirova, guabirova
  • → Hunsrik: Gabirob

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûabiraba”, 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 129, column 1