mupuranga
Nheengatu
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Yepé mupurangasawa
Etymology
From mu- (causative prefix) + puranga (“beautiful, good”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mu.pu.ˈɾã.ɡa]
- Hyphenation: mu‧pu‧ran‧ga
- Rhymes: -ãɡa
Verb
mupuranga
- (transitive) to beautify (make beautiful)
- Maria umupuranga i mimbira.
- Maria beautifies her son.
- 2017, Rodrigo Godinho Trevisan, Tradução comentada da obra Le Petit Prince, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, do francês ao nheengatu, page 157:
- — Yepé maã umupuranga tetama mira-íma — unheẽ muruxawamirĩ: aé uyumimi-kwáu yepé ií-kwara mayewa tendawa upé-ntu.
- — One thing makes the desert beautiful — says the little prince: it can hide a well somewhere.
- (transitive) to adorn, to decorate
- Akayú pisasú usika ana. Ixé amupuranga se ruka mupurangasawa-itá irũmu!
- The new year has arrived. I decorate my house with ornaments!
- (transitive) to improve (make better)
Conjugation
| singular | conjugation |
|---|---|
| first-person (ixé) | amupuranga |
| second-person (indé) | remupuranga |
| third-person (aé) | umupuranga |
| plural | conjugation |
| first-person (yandé) | yamupuranga |
| second-person (penhẽ) | pemupuranga |
| third-person (aintá or tá) | umupuranga |
Alternative forms
- mpuranga
- umpuranga
Derived terms
- mupurangasara
- mupurangasawa
- yumupuranga
References
- ÁVILA, Marcel Twardowsky (2021) Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 529
- NAVARRO, Eduardo de Almeida (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica, 2nd edition, →ISBN, page 106
- STRADELLI, Ermanno (2014) Vocabulário português–nheengatu, nheengatu–português, →ISBN, page 211