pokaba
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Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Spanish Jesuit missionary Joseph of Anchieta in the 16th century, from poka (“explosion”) + -ab (instrumentalizer suffix) + -a, literally “explosion instrument”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pokaba (Ib class pluriform, absolute mokaba) (possessable)
- firearm
- 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter XX, 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] (overall work in Middle French and Old Tupi), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, pages 124–125:
- T. — Esse non bat
F. — Coromo
T. — Neîn.
F. — Mocap […] Mororocap […] Mocap-coui […] Mocap-couiourou […]- [T. — Esenõî mbá
F. — Koromõ
T. — Ne'ĩ.
F. — Mokaba […] Mororokaba […] Mokaku'i […] Mokaku'iuru […] ] - T. — Name everything.
F. — Just a moment.
T. — Alright.
F. — Firearms, bombards, gunpowder, gunpowder containers.
- [T. — Esenõî mbá
- cannon; bombard
- Synonyms: pororokaba, pokaboby, pokabusu
- (by extension) shot (the result of launching a projectile)
- Synonym: pororokaba
Derived terms
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Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: mukawa
References
[edit]- anonymous author (1622) “Bombarda”, 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 57
- anonymous author (1622) “Tiro de fogo”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 129
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “mokaba”, 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 294, column 1
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- Old Tupi terms coined by Joseph of Anchieta
- Old Tupi coinages
- Old Tupi terms suffixed with -sab
- Old Tupi terms suffixed with -a
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/aβa
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/aβa/3 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi Ib class nouns
- Old Tupi possessable nouns
- Old Tupi pluriform nouns
- Old Tupi terms with quotations
- tpw:Firearms
- tpw:Artillery