kamarara

Nheengatu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Spanish camara

Spanish cámara

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Late Latin -āta

Spanish -ada

Spanish camaradabor.

Portuguese camaradabor.

Old Tupi kamarara

Nheengatu kamarara

Inherited from Old Tupi kamarara, borrowed from Portuguese camarada, borrowed from Spanish camarada, from cámara + -ada.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kamaˈrara/
• Rhymes: -ara
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma‧ra‧ra

Noun

kamarara (plural kamarara-itá)

1. (archaic) friend; comrade

Derived terms

• kamararasawa

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kamarara”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 363

Old Tupi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old Spanish camara

Spanish cámara

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātus

Late Latin -āta

Spanish -ada

Spanish camaradabor.

Portuguese camaradabor.

Old Tupi kamarara

Borrowed from Portuguese camarada, borrowed from Spanish camarada, from cámara + -ada.

Noun

kamarara (possessable) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. friend; comrade
   • a. 1759, anonymous author, Narração que faz um sertanejo a um seu amigo de uma viagem que fez pelo sertão; republished as Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, “Um texto anônimo, em língua geral amazônica, do século XVIII”, in Revista USP, number 90, São Paulo, 2011 August, →DOI, page 189:

     Ixé nde Paí camarára, / Nde Paí abé xe rauçupára; / Ereicò cüáb xe iopoitàra, / Aipó opotár Iandé Iára.

     [Ixé nde pa'i kamarara, nde pa'i abé xe raûsupara; ereîkokûab xe îopoîtara, aîpó opotar Îandé Îara.]

     I'm a comrade of your priest, your priest is also friends with me; you can feed me, that's what Our Lord wants.

Descendants

• Nheengatu: kamarara

References

• Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Parceira = ro”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 30, column 2, line 71; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 213: “xecamarára [xe kamarara]”
• annonymous (c. 1757) “AMIGA”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica, Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 94: “camarára”