tiriba

English

Etymology

Tupian.

Noun

tiriba (plural tiribas)

  1. (possibly obsolete) The white-eared parakeet.
    • 1830, Josiah Conder, Brazil and Buenos Ayres ..., page 142:
      Perroquets, maracanas, maitaccas, tiribas, curicas, camutangas, nandayas, and other species of parrots, flew, loudly screaming, in numerous flocks from bank to bank;
    • 1878, Jacob Henry Studer, Studer's Popular Ornithology ..., page 69:
      The Ganuba is found in the northern parts of Brazil, especially in the regions near the Amazon river, but nowhere else in great numbers. Another of the gorgeously colored Paroquets, is the Tiriba, of Brazil (Conurus leucotis).

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi tiriba.[1]

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾi.bɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /t͡ʃiˈɾi.ba/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /tiˈɾi.bɐ/ [tiˈɾi.βɐ]

  • Rhymes: -ibɐ
  • Hyphenation: ti‧ri‧ba

Noun

tiriba m or f (plural tiribas)

  1. (Brazil) any bird in the genus Pyrrhura

References
  1. Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tiriba”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 479, column 1
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