# karapina
## Nheengatu
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi karapina.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /karaˈpina/
* Rhymes: -ina
* Hyphenation: ka‧ra‧pi‧na

### Noun

karapina (plural karapina-itá)
* carpenter (person skilled at carpentry)
    Synonyms: mirá-yupanasara, yupanasara
** 1890 [1872–1887], “Cantigas do makuru [Cradle folk songs]”, in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, Arapaçu [Woodpecker] (section IV), page 288:Arapaçu porauquê icó u çaçaua yepé apegáua carapina u iuire: — Oh! Camarará? — Oh! Camarará! Maá taá re munhan, arapaçu? — Maá mo taá? Cha monhan carapina cha icó.The woodpecker was working, when another carpenter passed by: “Oh, comrade”? “Oh, comrade! What do you do, woodpecker”? “What do I do? I do what I am, a carpenter”.[Story collected at Branco River]
** 2021, Bíblia Baré, Buia Igarapé, Alto Rio Negro Indigenous Territory: Missão Novas Tribos do Brasil, translation of New Testament, Mateu 13:55:Maitaa timaa aete kua karapina raira? Maitaa timaa imaya kua serawaa Maria? Maitaa timaa imuita kua Tiagu Juze yuiri Simão yuiri Juda yuiri?Isn't this the carpenter’s son? Isn't his mother called Mary? Aren't his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas

### References

* Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “karapina”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 374

## Old Tupi
### Alternative forms

Historical spellings :
| VLB (1624) | carapina |

### Etymology

Uncertain. Some sources consider it a borrowing from Portuguese carpinteiro, but the adaptation of -eiro isn't clear (see pereru (“blacksmith”), from ferreiro).

### Noun

karapina (?)
* carpenter (person skilled at carpentry)
    Synonym: ybyrapandara

#### Descendants

* Nheengatu: karapina
* → Portuguese: carapina

### References

* ↑ José Joaquim Machado de Oliveira (c. 1850) “corruptela de carpinteiro”, in Vocabulario elementar da Lingua Geral Brasilica (overall work in Portuguese); republished as José de Alcântara Machado, editor, Revista do Arquivo Municipal, volume 25, number 3, São Paulo, 1936 July, page 137: “CARAPINA”
* anonymous author (1622) “Carpinteiro”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 67: “carapina”
* João de Arronches (1739) “CARAPINTEIRO”, in Caderno da Lingua (overall work in Portuguese); republished as “O caderno da lingua ou Vocabulario Portuguez-Tupi”, in Plínio Ayrosa, editor, Revista do Museu Paulista, volume XXI, São Paulo: Imprensa Official do Estado, 1934, page 140: “carapina”
* Frei Onofre (1751) “Carpinteiro”, in José Mariano da Conceição Velloso, editor, Dicionario portuguez, e brasiliano (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina Patriarcal, published 1795, page 22, column 2: “Carapîna”
* Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Carpenteiro”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 9r, column 2, line 143; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica, Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI, page 127: “carapína”

### Further reading

* Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “karapina”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 221, column 2