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kuîmbuka

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Old Tupi

Etymology

From kuîa (calabash) + bok (to split) + -a; thus called because the bowl was made with a half of the split fruit.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kujˈᵐbu.ka/
  • Rhymes: -uka
  • Hyphenation: kuî‧mbu‧ka

Noun

kuîmbuka

  1. bowl

Descendants

  • Portuguese: cumbuca, cuiambuca

References

  1. Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kuîmbuka”, 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 240, column 2

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