Wiktionary

puraké

Old Tupi edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pu.ɾaˈkɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: pu‧ra‧ké

Etymology 1 edit

 
poraké (sense 1)
 
poraké (sense 2)

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *purake.[1]

Compare Paraguayan Guaraní porake.

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

puraké (unpossessable)

  1. electric eel (Electrophorus electricus, an eel-like fish capable of generating powerful electric shocks)
    Synonym: purá
  2. chola guitarfish (Pseudobatos percellens)
Descendants edit
  • Nheengatu: puraké
  • → Portuguese: poraquê, poroquê, puraquê

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

puraké (possessable)

  1. elbow
    Synonym: endybangã
Usage notes edit

Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, from 1622, states that puraké was only used in the Captaincy of São Vicente, current São Paulo state. The inherited term in Northern Brazil's Nheengatu, however, shows that the word was known in a wider area.[2]

Descendants edit

Etymology 3 edit

Adjective edit

puraké

  1. disguised
  2. deceptive
  3. fake; false
    Synonym: ran

Noun edit

puraké (possessable)

  1. disguise
  2. deceit; fraud

References edit

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
  2. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “puraké²”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 638

Further reading edit

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