gûará

• ûará, gûyará

• IPA^(key): [ɡʷaˈɾa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: gûa‧rá

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *wara. First attested in 1557.

gûará (unpossessable)

1. scarlet ibis (Eudocimus ruber)

   Synonym: ûarapyranga

   • [1557, Hans Staden, chapter XIX, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:

     ES ligt eyn kleyne inſel bei der inſel darinn ich gefangen wurd / in der niſten waſſer voͤgel die heyſven Vwara / haben rote feddern

     There lies a small island near the island where I was caught, where nest waterfowl called “ûará” [that] have red feathers.]

   • [1576, Pero de Magalhães Gândavo, chapter VII, in Hiſtoria da prouincia ſãcta Cruz a qui vulgarmẽte chamamos Brasil [History of the Holy Cross province, which we vulgarly call Brazil]‎^[1] (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Antonio Gonsaluez, pages 26v–27r:

     […] hũas maritimas a q̃ chamão Goarás […]

     Some sea [birds] that they call “gûara”.]

   • [p. 1583, Fernão Cardim, chapter XX, in Do clima e terra do Brasil (in Portuguese); republished in Rodolfo Garcia, editor, Tratados da terra e gente do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro: J. Leite & Cia, 1925, page 98:

     Guará. — Este passaro he do tamanho de huma Pega, tem o bico muito comprido com a ponta revolta, e os pés de comprimento de hum grande palmo; quando nasce he preto, e depois se faz pardo; quando já avôa faz-se todo branco mais que huma pomba, depois faz-se vermelho claro, et tandem torna-se vermelho mais que a mesma grã, e nesta côr permanece até á morte […]

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   • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 240v:

     Entre autres l'Ouära eſt vne eſpece de Courlïeu qui a le bec long pour le moins de demy pied fort menu & pointu par le bout. Son plumage eſt d'vn tres-beau rouge incarnadin de toute parts, ſinon quelques vns qui ont les extremitez de leurs aiſles noires.

     Among other things, the “ûará” is a species of curlew that has a beak about half a foot long, very thin and pointed at the end. Its plumage is of a very beautiful red, incarnadine all along, except for some that have black wing tips.]

   • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book VIII, chapter VI (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 270:

     Viri corollas factas ex pennis Guara vel Caninde, capiti circumligant

     Men bind small chaplets made from “gûará” or “kanindé” feathers around their heads.]

• Nheengatu: wará
• → Portuguese: guará

gûará (unpossessable)

1. jack (any of the marine fish in the family Carangidae)
   • [1578, Jean de Léry, chapter 1, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 349:

     Ouara, Vn grand poiſſon de bon goust.

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   • [1587, Gabriel Soares de Sousa, chapter 131, in Notícia do Brasil (in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, 2nd edition, Rio de Janeiro: João Ignancio da Silva, 1879, page 260:

     Chamam os indios guiará, a que os Portuguezes chamam charéo, que é peixe largo, branco, prateado e tezo, o qual quando é gordo é em extremo saboroso; e tem nas pontas das espinhas, nas costas, uns ossos alvos atonelados, tão grossos no meio como avelãs, mas compridos; o qual peixe morre á linha e em redes em todo o anno, e alem de ser gostoso é muito sadio.

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   • 1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXIX, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 245:

     Il y a l'Ouära qui eſt vn poiſſon plat, ayãt deux grands pieds de long, & plus d'vn pied de large. Il eſt d'vne couleur argentine & ſes aiſlerons ſont iaulnaſtres.

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   • [c. 1631, Christovão de Lisboa, Historia dos animaes e arvores do Maranhão [History of Maranhão's animals and trees]‎^[2] (in Portuguese), Lisbon, page 166:

     guara he peixe de palmo e meio de comprido, ce escama pelas costas pardo tira de uerde he bramquo pelo meio do corpo e pela barigua amarelo e he bom peixe acado e cozido não he bom porque ce bota a pelia fora e tem pouqua espinha

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• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “gûará”, 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 133, columns 1–2
• Papavero, Nelson; Teixeira, Dante Martins (2014), Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupi zoonymy in the 16th-century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 261, 278