ybyrapararanga

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Historical spellings
VLB (1622)	igbigrapararanga / jgbîrapararãga / ygbigrapararanga / ybigrâpararanga

Etymology

From ybyrá (“wood”) +‎ pararang (“to roll”) +‎ -a (nominal suffix), literally “wood that rolls”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɨ.βɨˌɾa.pa.ɾaˈɾã.ŋa/
• Rhymes: -ãŋa
• Hyphenation: y‧by‧ra‧pa‧ra‧ra‧nga

Noun

ybyrapararanga (?) (Late Tupi)

1. A wheel that moves along the ground.
2. (proscribed) A wheel that moves along the air.

   Synonyms: ybyranhatimana, ybyrababaka

3. cart (wheeled vehicle drawn by an animal)

   Synonym: tapi'irarepanakũ

Noun

ybyrapararanga (?)

1. (Late Tupi) sugar mill, trapiche

   Synonym: ybyrababaka

Descendants

• → Kariri: wirapararã

References

• anonymous author (1622), “Carreta, ou carro”, 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 68: “Jgbîrapararãga”
• anonymous author (1622), “Engenho, ou trepiche”, 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 116: “Ybigrâpararanga”
• anonymous author (1622), “Roda como de carro e toda a que anda pello chão”, 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 107: “Igbigrapararanga”
• anonymous author (1622), “Roda por toda a q. anda no ar como a mô do barbeiro, do engenho de algodão, etc.”, 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 107: “Ygbigrapararanga”
• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648), Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Historiae Plantarum, book II, chapter XVI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 83: “Ibira pararanga”

Further reading

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “ybyrapararanga”, 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 522, column 1