apûã

Old Tupi

Noun

apûã (possessable)

1. labium superius oris; upper lip

   Coordinate term: embé (“lower lip”)

Related terms

• apûãaba
• apûãtĩ

 

References

• Pero de Castilho (1613) “beiço de cima”, in Nomes das partes do corpo humano, pella lingua do Braſil [Names of the human body parts by the language of Brazil] (in Old Tupi), volume 1; republished as Plínio Ayrosa, editor, São Paulo: Revista dos Tribunais, 1937, page 29, line 41: “Apoã [Apûã]”
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “apûã”, 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 51, column 1