maraba

See also: marabá

Hausa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْحَبًا (marḥaban).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /má.ràː.bá/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mə́.ràː.bə́]

Interjection

mar̃ā̀ba

1. welcome!

Alternative forms

• màr̃habìn

Etymology 2

From rabā̀ (“divide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /má.ɽá.báː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [mə́.ɽə́.báː]

Noun

marabā f (possessed form marabar̃)

1. difference (between two or more things)

Old Tupi

Etymology

From paraba (literally “stain, spot”).

Noun

maraba (possessable)

1. bastard (illegitimate descendant)

Descendants

• → Portuguese: marabá (learned)

References

• Yves d’Évreux (1613–1614) chapter XXIII, in Suite de l’Histoire des Choses plus mémorables, advenuës en Maragnan és années 1613 et 1614, volume 1, part 1 (overall work in French), Paris: François Huby, published 1615, page 163: “Marap”
• Simão de Vasconcellos (1663) Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Livro primeiro (overall work in Portuguese), Lisboa: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 303, column 1: “Marabà”

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “maraba”, 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 260, column 1