papera

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pe.ra/
• Rhymes: -apera
• Hyphenation: pà‧pe‧ra

papera f (plural papere)

1. female equivalent of papero
2. error
   1. slip of the tongue

• appare

Inherited from Old Tupi papera, from Portuguese papel (“paper”).

• IPA^(key): [paˈpe.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -era
• Hyphenation: pa‧pe‧ra

papera

1. paper; sheet of paper
2. letter (written communication)
   • 1938 [1872], Charles Frederick Hartt, “Notas sobre a lingua geral, ou tupí moderno do Amazonas”, in Anais da Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro‎, volume LI (overall work in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: M. E. S. Serviço Gráfico, page 380, line 484:

     ixé xamuñán xaikó iepé papéra, xamonono aráma seremirikó supé.

     I'm writting a letter to send to my wife.

3. book; notebook
   • 2017, Rodrigo Godinho Trevisan, Tradução comentada da obra Le Petit Prince, de Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, do francês ao nheengatu, São Paulo, →DOI, page 60, line 4:

     Papera unhee: "Buyawasú-itá umukuna aintá rimiara pawa usuú-suú-íma aintá. Asuí aintá ti ukataka-kwáu, aintá ukíri puyepé yasí aintá apú pukusawa."

     [original: On disait dans le livre: “Les serpents boas avalent leur proie tout entière, sans la mâcher. Ensuite ils ne peuvent plus bouger et ils dorment pendant les six mois de leur digestion."]

     The book says: "The big snakes swallow all their prey without chewing. Then, they can't move [and] sleep for six months while they are full."

4. document

• Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “papera”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎ (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 578–579

Borrowed from Portuguese papel (“paper”).

• IPA^(key): [paˈpɛ.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ɛɾa
• Hyphenation: pa‧pe‧ra

papera (possessable)

1. (Late Tupi) letter (written communication)

   Synonym: kûatiara

   • 1645 October 4, Antônio Filipe Camarão, Letter to Pedro Poti (Camarão Indians' letters; 3):

     Tereyucaucar benhẽ e serã nhandu ẽdebeco xepapera reracoara Maẽ rae amo Ereyucaucariguá aebae ã aicúgoábiguá […] derigceira Capitão Diogo da Costa aimondo endebe xepapera reracobo coy ã

     [T'ereîukáukar benhẽ é serã nhandu endébe kó xe papera rerasoara? Ma'ẽ ra'e amõ ereîukaukar ygûá, a'eba'e ã aîkugûab ygûã. […] nde ryke'yra Capitão Diogo da Costa, aîmondó endébe xe papera rerasóbo ko'y ã]

     Are you really going to, as usual, have the deliverer of this letter of mine killed? See, I already know you had the other one killed. Your older brother, Capitão Diogo da Costa, I send carrying my letter now.

   • 1645 October 17, Diogo da Costa, Letter to Pedro Poti (Camarão Indians' letters; 4):

     Ecemi coxepapera repiaca rupibe

     [Esemĩ, kó xe papera repîaka rupibé.]

     Just leave, as soon as you see this letter of mine.

• Nheengatu: papera

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

papera f (plural paperas)

1. female equivalent of papero

papera f

1. feminine singular of papero