Tupan

Portuguese

Proper noun

Tupan m

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Tupã.
    • 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

Tupan f

  1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of Tupã.
    • 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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