tubarão

See also: Tubarão

Portuguese

tubarão (Carcharodon carcharias)

Alternative forms

• tubaram (obsolete)

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably from Old Tupi yperu, with the addition of an initial t- under the influence of another native word (possibly from a different language family like Arawakan).

Compare Spanish tiburón, Galician tabeirón, Catalan tauró.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tu.baˈɾɐ̃w̃/ [tu.baˈɾɐ̃ʊ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tu.bɐˈɾɐ̃w̃/ [tu.βɐˈɾɐ̃w̃]

• Hyphenation: tu‧ba‧rão

Noun

tubarão m (plural tubarões)

1. shark
   • 1500 May 1, Pêro Vaz de Caminha, Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha‎^[1], Porto Seguro, page 7v:

     […] e leuaram daly huũ tubaram que bertolameu dijz matou […]

     […] and they took from there a shark that Bartolomeu Dias killed […]

Derived terms

• tubarão-baleia
• tubarão-branco

 

Further reading

• “tubarão”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
• “tubarão”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
• tubarão on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt