papasawa

Nheengatu
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10
    Cardinal: papasawa, yepé-papasawa

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi papasaba.[1]

Numeral

papasawa

  1. (archaic) hundred
  2. (archaic) one hundred

Noun

papasawa

  1. (archaic) count; counting
    Synonym: paparisawa
    • 1926, Antônio Brandão de Amorim, Lendas em nheengatu e em português (overall work in Portuguese), Manaus: Fundo Editorial; Associação Comercial do Amazonas, published 1987, page 222:
      Ara mukũi pú papasawa riré, Tupana ururi aé yepé itaúka pupé kití […]
      After the count of ten days, Tupana took her to a cave […]
  2. (archaic) hundred (100 units of something)

References
  1. Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “papasawa”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 578
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