caburé

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• caboré

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi kaburé.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ka.buˈɾɛ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /kɐ.buˈɾɛ/ [kɐ.βuˈɾɛ]

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: ca‧bu‧ré

Noun

caburé m (plural caburés)

1. (Brazil, broadly) pygmy owl (any of various species of small owl from the genus Glaucidium)
2. (Brazil, strictly) ferruginous pygmy owl (Glaucidium brasilianum)
3. (Brazil) burrowing owl (small owl of the Americas that lives in holes, Athene cunicularia)

   Synonyms: coruja-buraqueira, urucureia

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Guaraní kavure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kabuˈɾe/ [ka.β̞uˈɾe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: ca‧bu‧ré

Noun

caburé m (plural caburés)

1. pygmy owl (any of various species of small owl from the genus Glaucidium)

Further reading

• “caburé”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014