tanimbuka

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tanimuk.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní tanimbu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tã.nĩˈᵐbu.ka]
• Rhymes: -uka
• Hyphenation: ta‧ni‧mbu‧ka

Noun

tanimbuka (possessable)

1. ash (solid remains of a fire)

   Synonym: uba

   • 1686 [1618], Antônio de Araújo, “Em Março”, in Bartolomeu de Leão, editor, Cateciſmo Braſilico da Doutrina Chriſtãa [Brazilian Catechism of the Christian Doctrine], 2 edition, Catalogo dos dias Santos de guarda, & de jejum (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Miguel Deslandes, page 122:

     Quarta feira tanimbucaräîba raçâpe iecüacúpabuçú, Quareſma iâba nhëypyrûnghi: ipupé quarenta âra iaiecüacúbine.

     [Quarta-feira tanimbukaraíba rasápe îekuakupabusu, Quaresma 'îaba nheypyrungi: i pupé quarenta 'ara îaîekuakubyne.]

     When the Ash Wednesday (literally, “Wednesday's holy ashes”) passes, the great fasting called Lent starts: in it, we will fast for forty days.

Related terms

• tanimbuky

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: tanimbuka
• →? Brazilian Portuguese: tanimbuca

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tanimbuka”, 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 461, column 2