jabuti
English
editEtymology
editFrom Portuguese jabuti, from Old Tupi îaboti.
Noun
editjabuti (plural jabutis)
- A Brazilian tortoise, especially a yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus).
- 1879, Herbert Huntington Smith, Brazil, the Amazons and the Coast, page 545:
- The deer gave up the race to the jabuti. The deer then offered to have a trial of strength with the jabuti.
- 1977, Roberta C. Wigder, Brazil Rediscovered, Dorrance Publishing Company:
- Again, the rabbit would try harder, run faster, and pass the jabuti once more, but no matter how hard he tried or how fast he ran, when he came around the corner, again and again the jabuti was in the lead.
- 1881, Joel Chandler Harris, Nights with Unlcle Remus:
- The Jabuti is identical with Brother Terrapin. The man carried the Jabuti to his house, put him in a box, and went out. By and by the Jabuti began to sing, just as Brother Babbit did. The man's children listened, and the Jabuti stopped.
- 2006(?), Livia de Almeida, Ana Portella, Brazilian Folktales, Libraries Unlimited (→ISBN):
- The most popular of all is the jabuti (or Yauti, as it is pronounced in the Tupy language). It is a large turtle, much appreciated as food. Short-legged, slow, weak, and silent, the jabuti in the Amazon tradition is like the fox in the European tales.
See also
editReferences
editPortuguese
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from Old Tupi îaboti.
Pronunciation
edit
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: ja‧bu‧ti
Noun
editjabuti m (plural jabutis, feminine (Brazil) jabota, feminine plural (Brazil) jabotas)
- (zoology) either a yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus) or the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius)
- Synonyms: jabuti-tinga, jabuti-piranga
- (Brazil, by extension) any tortoise (terrestrial turtle)
- (Brazil, law, slang) an amendment to a law which is strange to its main subject, as "tortoises do not climb trees" (Brazilian proverb) (it was put onto the tree by someone)
Hypernyms
edit- quelónio (Portugal), quelônio (Brazil), tartaruga, testudíneo
Coordinate terms
edit- (tortoise): cágado, tartaruga marinha
Derived terms
edit- jabutizinho (diminutive)
Descendants
edit- → English: jabuti
Etymology 2
editNoun
editjabuti m (uncountable)
- an indigenous language spoken in Brazil
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