beraba

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *βeraβ (“lightning”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [βɛˈɾaβa]
• Rhymes: -aβa
• Hyphenation: be‧ra‧ba

Noun

beraba (possessable)

1. shine (brightness from reflected light)

   Near-synonym: endy (“shine from a source of light”)

   • 1618, Cristóvão Valente, “Outra em louvor da Virgem”, in Antônio de Araújo, compiler, Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Cantigas na lingoa pera os mininos da Sancta Doctrina (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 2v:

     Otĩ coâtacî ocêma
     Nde berâba roba quê
     Yacî tatá cuépé ê
     Ynhe mimi nde coêma
     Ara rorî pábété

     [Otĩ kûarasy osema / Nde beraba robaké / Îasytatá kûepe é / I nhemimi nde ko'ema / 'Ara rorypabeté]

     The sun is rising ashamed before your shine. Far away the stars hide. You are the morning, the day's true reason for happiness

2. (figurative) splendor
   • 16th century, Joseph of Anchieta, “Da Conceiſaõ de Noſsa ſãr” (chapter LXII), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ], page 146, column 2, lines 36–40; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 276:

     Putunuçu porarabo
     oroicotebẽ gatu
     Emonanamo ereiu
     oreputuna peabo
     tupã beraba reru.

     [Putunusu porarábo / oroîkotebẽngatu / Emonãnamo ereîu oré putuna pe'abo / Tupã beraba reru.]

     Enduring the great darkness, we are very anguished. Thus, you come to repel our darkness, bringing God's splendor.

Related terms

• amãberaba
• berab
• tupãberaba

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: werawa

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “beraba”, 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 81, column 2