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abá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "aba"

Chaná edit

Pronunciation edit

  • /a'βa/

Preposition edit

abá

  1. in
    • Numít abá ianá
      • cooking in fat
  2. in the middle of; among
    • abá atamá
      • in between rivers

Old Tupi edit

 
abá (sense 3)

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aβa.[1]

Cognate with Guaraní ava.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [aˈβ̞a]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: a‧bá

Noun edit

abá (unpossessable)

  1. man (male human)
  2. man (human, a person regardless of gender or sex)
  3. (strictly) American Indian
    Abá peró supé onhe'eng.
    The Indians talked to the Portuguese.

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

Pronoun edit

abá

  1. (interrogative) what; which
  2. someone, anyone
    Ké abá rekóû anhẽ.
    Someone is certainly here.
  3. nobody, no one
    N'opytáî amõ abá maranápe.
    There was no one left at the battlefield.

Synonyms edit

Pronoun edit

abá (plural abaabá)

  1. (interrogative) who
    Abápe nde? ― Who are you?

References edit

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
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