guariba

See also: Guariba

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese guariba, from Old Tupi gûariba. Other early European spellings/renderings of the same Tupian word include guariva, guariha, uariba, waariba, and in French ouarive/ouariue (which was misread as ouarine, giving rise to that word and, by anglicization of it, to warine).

The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to araguato and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes); the New English Dictionary directs readers to compare alouatte and araguato.

Noun

guariba (plural guaribas)

1. Any of several South American howler monkeys with prehensile tails.
   • 1865, The Boys' Journal:

     [He saw] ahead of him the carcass of a guariba. It was drifting towards them, [...]

   • 1911, Jules Verne, The five hundred millions of the begum, page 261:

     It was not a man at all, it was a guariba. Of all the prehensile-tailed monkeys which haunt the forests of the Upper Amazon the guariba is without doubt the most eccentric. Of sociable disposition, and not very savage, ...

   • 1963, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology:

     THE MAN WHO MARRIED THE GUARIBA MONKEY
     There was once a man who unknowingly married a guariba monkey in human form. The couple lived together until she grew pregnant; she then suggested a visit to her father.

Related terms

• ouarine, warine

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• guariva

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi gûariba.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈɾi.bɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈɾi.bɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ɡwaˈɾi.ba/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɡwɐˈɾi.bɐ/ [ɡwɐˈɾi.βɐ]

• Rhymes: -ibɐ
• Hyphenation: gua‧ri‧ba

Noun

guariba m (plural guaribas)

1. (Brazil) howler monkey (any monkey in the genus Alouatta)

   Synonyms: bugio, barbado, macaco-uivador

Descendants

• → English: guariba
• → French: ouarine
  • → English: ouarine
  • → English: warine