Tupã

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tupa"

Guaraní

Proper noun

Tupã

  1. (Christianity) God

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From tupã (“thunder”).[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [tuˈpã]
    • Rhymes: -ã
    • Hyphenation: Tu‧pã
    • Homophone: tupã

    Proper noun

    Tupã

    1. Tupã (a Tupian deity, the personification of thunder)
      • [1663, Simão de Vasconcellos, Chronica da Companhia de Jesu do Estado do Brasil [Chronicle of the State of Brazil's Society of Jesus], Noticias antecedentes (book II) (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Henrique Valente de Oliveira, page 107, column 2:
        […] tem com tudo huns confuſos veſtigios de hũa Excelẽcia ſupperior, a que chamão Tupà […] & deſta moſtraõ q dependem; pella qual rezão tem grande medo dos trouoẽs, & relampagos, porque dizem que ſaõ effeitos deſte Tupá ſuperior […]
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    2. (Christianity) God
      • 1557, Hans Staden, chapter 20, in Warhaftige Hiſtoria [True History], volume 1 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:
        Ne mungitta dee Tuppan do Quabe anamaſu y an dee Imme Ranni me ſiſe […]
        [Emongetá nde Tupã t'okûab é amanusu îandé momarane'yma resé […] ]
        Ask your God to truly make the storm pass so that it does not harm us.
      • 1645 October 21, Diogo Pinheiro Camarão, Letter to Baltazar Araberana, Gaspar Cararu, Jandaia and Pedro Valadin (Camarão Indians' letters; 6), page 2:
        […] peẽ Christam ramo pereco roije / Coy peẽ pecanhema rece natecatupe Erimae Chris/tam recou Paitupa raucuba peabo rau
        [Peẽ cristão-ramo pe rekoruînhẽ. Ko'y peẽ, pe kanhema resé, naeté katupe. Erima'e cristão rekóû, Pa'i Tupã raûsuba pe'abo ra'u.]
        You, as Christians, are sick. Now you, for your doom, are the most vunerable. In the past you were Christians, but you sadly left Lord God's love.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Nheengatu: Tupana, Tupã, Tupá
    • → Kariri: tupan
    • → Portuguese: Tupã

    References

    1. ^ Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “Tupã”, 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 482, column 2

    Paraguayan Guaraní

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /tuˈpã/

    Noun

    Tupã

    1. God (in Christianity)
    2. Tupã, Tupavẽ, Tenondete (in Guaraní mythology)

    Portuguese

    Alternative forms

    • Tupan (pre-standardization spelling)

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Old Tupi Tupã.

      Pronunciation

      • (Brazil) IPA(key): /tuˈpɐ̃/

      • Rhymes: -ɐ̃
      • Hyphenation: Tu‧pã

      Proper noun

      Tupã m

      1. the god of thunder in Tupi mythology
        • 1851, Gonçalves Dias, “Y-juca-pyrama”, in Ultimos Cantos [Last Songs], Rio de Janeiro: Typographia de F. de Paula Brito, page 16:
          Que foi? Tupan mandou que elle cahisse, / Como viveu; / E o caçador que o avistou prostrado / Esmoreceu!
          What happened? Tupã told him to be felled, / The way he lived; / And the hunter that saw him weakened / Faltered!
        • 1933, Graciliano Ramos, Cahetés‎[1], 1st edition, Rio de Janeiro: Schmidt, pages 43–44:
          Em todo o caso apinhei os indios em alvoroço no centro da ocara, aterrorizados, gritando por Tupan, e afoguei um bando de marujos portuguezes.
          In any case, I gathered the Indians up in a crowd at the center of the communal yard, frightened, screaming for Tupã, and I drowned a bunch of Portuguese sailors.

      Proper noun

      Tupã f

      1. a municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, formerly a district of Glicério
        • 1934 October 2, Arthur M. Teixeira, “Decreto n. 6.720, de 2 de Outubro de 1934”, in Secretaria de Estado dos Negocios da Justiça e Segurança Publica, São Paulo:
          Fica creado, no municipio de Glycelo[sic], comarca de Pennapolis, o districto de paz de Tupan, cujas divisas serão as mesmas do districto policial do mesmo nome.
          It is created, in the municipality of Glicério, division of Penápolis, the peace district of Tupã, whose divisions will be the same as the police district of the same name.
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