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kuîmbuka

Old Tupi

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Etymology

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From kuîa (“calabash”) +‎ bok (“to split”) +‎ -a; thus called because the bowl was made with a half of the split fruit.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kujˈᵐbu.ka/
  • Rhymes: -uka
  • Hyphenation: kuî‧mbu‧ka

Noun

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kuîmbuka

  1. bowl

Descendants

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  • → Portuguese: cumbuca, cuiambuca

References

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  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuîmbuka”, 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 240, column 2
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