karapaná

Unknown.

karapaná (?) (Língua Geral Amazônica)

1. mosquito (any dipteran of the family Culicidae)

   Synonym: nhati'ũ

• Nheengatu: karapanã
  • → Brazilian Portuguese: carapanã

• Arronches, João de (1739), “MOSQUITO”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi [The language's notebook or Portuguese-Tupi vocabulary]”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 224: “carapaná”
• Frei Onofre (1751), “Mosquito”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano [Brazilian and Portuguese dictionary] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 53, column 1: “carapanâ”
• Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Mosquito […] os de pernas compridas / E agulhaõ comprido, tambem o que canta como trobetinha [Mosquito. The ones with long legs and a long needle, which also sing like a little trumpet]”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 28r, column 64, lines 1–2; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 203: “carapaná”
• anonymous author (c. 1757), “Mosquito grande [Large mosquito]”, in [Vocabulario Portuguez–Brasilico] [Brazilian-Portuguese Vocabulary] (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Ernesto Ferreira França, compiler, Chrestomathia da lingua brazilica [Chrestomathy of the Brazilian language], Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1859, page 90: “carapana”
• anonymous author (18th century), “Mosquito”, in Diccionario da lingua brazilica [Dictionary of the Brasílica Language]‎^[1] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), page 11: “carapaná”