sabîá

Old Tupi

Etymology

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní havia and Paraguayan Guaraní havía.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saˈβja/, [saˈβ̞ʲa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: sa‧bîá

Noun

sabîá (unpossessable)

1. thrush (any species of songbirds of the genus Turdus)

Related terms

• sabîagûasu
• sabîapoka
• sabîapytanga
• sabîatinga
• sabîaúna

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: sabiá

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sabîá”, 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 435, column 2