Tupã

See also: tupa and túpa

Guaraní

Proper noun

Tupã

1. (Christianity) God

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• Tupana

Etymology

From tupã (“thunder”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuˈpã]
• Rhymes: -ã
• Hyphenation: Tu‧pã
• Homophone: tupã

Proper noun

Tupã

1. Tupã (a Tupian deity, the personification of thunder)
2. (Christianity, Late Tupi) God
   • 1645 October 21, Diogo Pinheiro Camarão, Letter to Baltazar Araberana, Gaspar Cararu, Jandaia and Pedro Valadin (Camarão Indians' letters; 6), page 2:

     […] peẽ Christam ramo pereco roije / Coy peẽ pecanhema rece natecatupe Erimae Chris/tam recou Paitupa raucuba peabo rau

     [Peẽ cristão-ramo pe rekoruînhẽ. Ko'y peẽ, pe kanhema resé, naeté katupe. Erima'e cristão rekóû, Pa'i Tupã raûsuba pe'abo ra'u.]

     You, as Christians, are sick. Now you, for your doom, are the most vunerable. In the past you were Christians, but you sadly left Lord God's love.

Derived terms

• Tupã Ta'yra
• Tupã Tuba
• tupãar
• tupãerogûatá
• tupãmongetá
• tupãoka
• tupãrara
• tupãrerobîasare'yma
• tupãrorypaba
• tupãypy
• tupãîoapyra

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: Tupana, Tupã, Tupá
• → Portuguese: Tupã

Paraguayan Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuˈpã/

Noun

Tupã

1. God (in Christianity)
2. Tupã, Tupavẽ, Tenondete (in Guaraní mythology)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi Tupã.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tuˈpɐ̃/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈpɐ̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃
• Hyphenation: Tu‧pã

Proper noun

Tupã m

1. the god of thunder in Tupi mythology

Proper noun

Tupã f

1. A municipality of São Paulo, Brazil