agûará

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• aûará

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *awara.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [a.ɡʷaˈɾa], [a.waˈɾa]

• Rhymes: -a

• Hyphenation: a.gûa.rá

Noun

agûará (non-possessable)

1. zorro, South American canid

Hyponyms

• agûaragûasu (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

Further reading

• anonymous author (1622) “Lobo, animal”, 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 23: “Aguará [Agûará]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “agûará”, 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 14, column 1
• Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 249