kará

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings 
d'Abbeville (1614) cara
VLB (1622) cara
Marcgrave (1648) cara

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈra/, [kaˈɾa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ka‧rá

Etymology 1

Noun

kará (?)

  1. any of various species of Dioscorea and their edible tubers[1][2]
    • [1614, Claude d'Abbeville, chapter XXXVIII, 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 229:
      Le Cara reſſemble à la precedente, il ſ'en retrouve de meſme groſſeur, les vnes ſont pourprines & les autres violettes, & font plus ſermes eſtant cuittes , & moins delicates que les Patates.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
    • 1622, anonymous author, “Uergonteas como as q. lanção as batatas et simil. [Shoots, like the ones released by potatoes and similar]”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 144; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
      Caraembô […]
      [Karaembó […] ]
      “Kará” shoot.
    • [1648, Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book I, chapter XIV (in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 29:
      CAra Braſilienſibus. Inhame de S. Thome […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)]
  • karaobamirĩ
Descendants
  • Nheengatu: kará
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: cará

Etymology 2

Noun

kará (?)

  1. alternative form of akará

References

  1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “kará”, 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 218, column 2
  2. ^ Tomchinsky, Bernardo; Ming, Lin Chau (2019), “As plantas comestíveis no Brasil dos séculos XVI e XVII segundo relatos de época”, in Rodriguésia (in Portuguese), volume 70, Rio de Janeiro: JBRJ, →DOI, page e03792017
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