Gûaîxará

• IPA^(key): [waj.ʃaˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: Gûaî‧xa‧rá

Gûaîxará

1. a male given name
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 119, lines 197–206; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 694:

     Acepiac erimbae / guaixara maranuçu / ygara çeta catu / ereipitibõ yepe / eri aani, ocij muru. // Caraiba naçetai, / ſ. ſebaſtiaõ ae / omondic tata çeçe / imondija, nopitai / amo aba maranape.

     [Asepîak erimba'e / Gûaîxará maranusu. / Ygara setakatu. / Ereîpytybõ îepé, / erĩ aani! Osyî muru. // Karaíba na setáî; / São Sebastião, a'e, / omondyk tatá sesé, / i mondyîa. N'opytáî / amõ abá maranápe.]

     I saw, once, the great battle of Guaixará. The canoes were very numerous. Although you helped them, oh no! The cursed ones trembled. The Christians were not many; Saint Sebastian, however, set fire to them [the canoes], scaring them [the cursed ones] away. No one remained in the place of the battle.

   • [1663, Simão de Vasconcellos, Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], book I (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 353, column 1:

     […] cem deſtas capitaneaua hũ affamado Barbaro por nome Guaixará, ſenhor de Cabo frio.

     One hundred of those [canoes] were commanded by a famous barbarian called Gûaîxará, master of Cabo Frio.]

• → Portuguese: Guaixará

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Gûaîxará”, 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 132, column 1