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tupi

See also: Tupi and tupí

Brunei Malay

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Etymology

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From Tamil தொப்பி (toppi), from Hindi टोपी (ṭopī).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tupi/
  • Hyphenation: tu‧pi

Noun

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tupi

  1. hat (head covering)

Catalan

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Verb

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tupi

  1. inflection of tupar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Farefare

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Noun

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tupi

  1. inner tube

French

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Adjective

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tupi (feminine tupie, masculine plural tupis, feminine plural tupies)

  1. Tupi

Noun

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tupi m (uncountable)

  1. Tupi (the Tupi language)

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Iban

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Malay topi, from Tamil தொப்பி (toppi), from Hindi टोपी (ṭopī).

Noun

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tupi

  1. hat (head covering)

Old Tupi

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Etymology

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From Tupi, a mythological figure said to be the ancestor of all Tupian peoples.[1]

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Noun

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tupi (unpossessable)

  1. Tupi (any of several related indigenous nations of coastal Brazil that spoke Old Tupi)
    • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 33, lines 110–114; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
      Kûeîsé, r'akó, amõ kanhemi, / ogûeîypa Magûeápe. / Abaré ogû erasoá'pe, / n'asaûsubi, i nhegûasemi, / tupi supa xe rekoá'pe.
      Yesterday, for certain, some have gone missing, going down to Magûeá. Because the priests took them, I don't love them, they fled, visiting the Tupi in my home.
    • c. 1585, Joseph of Anchieta, Na aldeia de Guaraparim [In the village of Guaraparim], Guarapari, page 142, lines 183–192; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
      — […] Paranãgûasu rasapa, / ybytyrybo gûibebébo, / asó tupi moangaîpapa, / a'e ré, muru mombapa, / xe ratápe seroîkébo.
      — Mba'e apŷabap'aîpó?
      — Tupinakyîa, keygûara, / tĩapyra moroupîara. / Muru, anhẽ, oîanga'o! / Nd'oîabyangáî îaguara...
      — Crossing the ocean, flying over the mountains, I went to make the Tupi sin, bringing them to my fire after that to kill the damned. / — Which men are these? / —The Tupiniquim, who live here, enemy informants. The damned, indeed, vituperate them! They truly are no different than the jaguars...
  2. (strictly) the Tupian people that lived in the São Vicente capitancy.
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Descendants

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  • Nheengatu: tupí
  • → Portuguese: tupi

References

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  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tupi”, 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 484, column 1

Portuguese

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Tupi tupi.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: tu‧pi

Noun

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tupi m or f by sense (plural tupis)

  1. Tupi (a member of the Tupi tribes of Brazil)

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tupi m (uncountable)

  1. Old Tupi (an extinct language of Brazil)
    Synonyms: língua geral, tupi clássico
  2. (proscribed) Nheengatu (a modern language of Brazil)
    Synonym: nheengatu

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Tupi was first used to refer to the language in early 20th century, making it an exonym. The Portuguese called it língua brasílica (“Brazilian language”) and língua geral (“General language”) in the 16th and 17th centuries, but there are no records of what name native speakers gave to it.

Derived terms

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Adjective

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tupi m or f (plural tupis, not comparable)

  1. (relational) of the Tupi tribe or people
  2. (relational) of the Old Tupi language
  3. (relational, proscribed) of the Nheengatu language

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Philippine *tupiq. Compare lupi and yupi.

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Noun

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tupî (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜉᜒ)

  1. fold; tuck
    Synonyms: lupi, tiklop
  2. pleat; plait
    Synonym: pliyeges
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Etymology 2

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See tupe.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tupí (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜉᜒ)

  1. Alternative form of tupe

Anagrams

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