abá
See also: Appendix:Variations of "aba"
Chaná edit
Pronunciation edit
- /a'βa/
Preposition edit
abá
- in
- Numít abá ianá
- cooking in fat
- Numít abá ianá
- in the middle of; among
- abá atamá
- in between rivers
- abá atamá
Old Tupi edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
abá (unpossessable)
- man (male human)
- man (human, a person regardless of gender or sex)
- (strictly) American Indian
- Abá peró supé onhe'eng.
- The Indians talked to the Portuguese.
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 48; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
- — Abá ra'yrape ûĩ?!
— Sé! Abá ra'yra, ipó...- — Whose sons are these?!
— No idea! Sons of Indians, definitely...
- — Whose sons are these?!
Synonyms edit
- See Thesaurus:abá
Derived terms edit
Pronoun edit
abá
- (interrogative) what; which
- someone, anyone
- Ké abá rekóû anhẽ.
- Someone is certainly here.
- nobody, no one
- N'opytáî amõ abá maranápe.
- There was no one left at the battlefield.
Synonyms edit
Pronoun edit
abá (plural abaabá)
- (interrogative) who
- Abápe nde? ― Who are you?
References edit
- Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos[2] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “abá”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil[3] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 5–6