musurana

English

Noun

musurana (plural musuranas)

1. Alternative form of mussurana

Old Tupi

The prisioner, at the center, tied by the musurana.

Etymology

From musu (“swamp eel”) +‎ ran (“false”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mu.suˈɾã.na]
• Rhymes: -ãna
• Hyphenation: mu‧su‧ra‧na

Noun

musurana (possessable)

1. a rope tied to the waist of the prisioner who would be killed in the anthropophagic ritual
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 64; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

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     [Kó xe musuranusu.]

     Here's my great musurana.

Descendants

• → Brazilian Portuguese: muçurana

References

• Hans Staden (1557) chapter XXIV, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America], volume 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page: “Muſſurana [Musurana]”
• Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CLIX, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), Salvador; republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 320: “muçuranas [musurana]”

Spanish

Noun

musurana f (plural musuranas)

1. mussurana