ymbaba

Old Tupi

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɨ̃ˈmba.βa]
• Rhymes: -aβa
• Hyphenation: y‧mba‧ba

Noun

ymbaba (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tymbaba, R1 rymbaba, R2 symbaba)

1. Alternative form of eŷmbaba
   • 1686 [1618], Antônio de Araújo, chapter 7, in Bartolomeu de Leão, editor, Cateciſmo Braſilico da Doutrina Chriſtãa [Brazilian Catechism of the Christian Doctrine], 2 edition, Cateciſmo […] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, page 108:

     Abá mbäé mombucâpa, abá rymbâbâ iucâbo, abá mundéçûpa ipórôca.

     [Abá mba'e mombukapa, abá rymbaba îukábo, abá mundé supa, i poroka.]

     Destroying someone's things, killing someone's livestock, visiting someone's traps, and emptying them.

   • 1686 [1618], Antônio de Araújo, chapter 7, in Bartolomeu de Leão, editor, Cateciſmo Braſilico da Doutrina Chriſtãa [Brazilian Catechism of the Christian Doctrine], 2 edition, Cateciſmo […] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, page 108:

     Oapixâra rymbâba iagoâra remimomocẽgoéra, coipó cemijucá poéra raçâra.

     [O apixara rymbaba îagûara remimomosẽgûera, koîpó semiîukapûera rasara.]

     Those who take what the domesticated dog of their peer has chased, or what it has killed.