kuîmbuka

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 (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 240, column 2
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