karapina

Nheengatu

Etymology

  • Inherited from Old Tupi karapina.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /karaˈpina/
    • Rhymes: -ina
    • Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧pi‧na

    Noun

    karapina (plural karapina-itá)

    1. carpenter (person skilled at carpentry)
      Synonyms: mirá-yupanasara, yupanasara
      • 1890 [1872–1887], “Cantigas do makuru [Cradle folk songs]”, in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, Arapaçu [Woodpecker] (section IV), page 288:
        Arapaçu porauquê icó u çaçaua yepé apegáua carapina u iuire:
        — Oh! Camarará?
        — Oh! Camarará! Maá taá re munhan, arapaçu?
        — Maá mo taá? Cha monhan carapina cha icó.
        The woodpecker was working, when another carpenter passed by:
        “Oh, comrade”?
        “Oh, comrade! What do you do, woodpecker”?
        “What do I do? I do what I am, a carpenter”.
        [Story collected at Branco River]
      • 2021, Bíblia Baré, Buia Igarapé; Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Territory: Missão Novas Tribos do Brasil, translation of The New Testament, Mateu 13:55:
        Maitaa timaa aete kua karapina raira? Maitaa timaa imaya kua serawaa Maria? Maitaa timaa imuita kua Tiagu Juze yuiri Simão yuiri Juda yuiri?
        Isn't this the carpenter’s son? Isn't his mother called Mary? Aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas

    References

    • Avila, Marcel Twardowsky (2021), “karapina”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 374

    Old Tupi

    Alternative forms

    Historical spellings 
    VLB (1622) carapina

    Etymology

  • Uncertain. Some sources consider it a borrowing from Portuguese carpinteiro,[1] but the adaptation of -eiro isn't clear (see pereru (“blacksmith”), from ferreiro).

    Noun

    karapina (?)

    1. carpenter (person skilled at carpentry)
      Synonym: ybyrapandara

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: karapina
    • → Portuguese: carapina

    References

    1. ^ José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850), “corruptela de carpinteiro”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, 1936 July, page 137: “CARAPINA”
    • anonymous author (1622), “Carpinteiro”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 67: “carapina”
    • Arronches, João de (1739), “CARAPINTEIRO”, 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 140: “carapina”
    • Frei Onofre (1751), “Carpinteiro”, 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 22, column 2: “Carapîna”
    • Meisterburg, Anton [attributed] (a. 1756), “Carpenteiro”, in [Dicionário de Trier] [Dictionary from Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu; Pará, page 9r, column 2, line 143; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica [Língua Geral Amazônica Dictionary], Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 127: “carapína”

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