Definitions for Tupis

Tupis Tu·pi

Spelling: [too-pee, too-pee]
IPA: /tuˈpi, ˈtu pi/

Tupis is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in Tupis (ipstu).

Definitions for Tupis

noun

  1. a member of any of several related Indian peoples living in the valleys of various Brazilian rivers, especially the Amazon.
  2. the language spoken in northern Brazil by the Tupi Indians.

Examples for Tupis

And whatever the name may have signified in the language of the Red Bones, its Tupi definition fitted with disagreeable precision.

Martius1527 has since indicated, in the Tupi language of Brazil, the names pacoba or bacoba.

When and where the Babel existed, whence the many branches of the great Tupi family separated, we know not.

Tupi angrily repeated his order and made as if to strike the inattentive bird.

An isolated Tupi group exists far to the north-west of the territory occupied by the bulk of this family.

But Tupi cosmology varies with locality, and this accounts for the conflicting notices of its several investigators.

Afterwards this word was corrupted into Tupi, or Tupin, and Tape.

There is reason, however, to suppose one of them was the Tupi or lengua geral, of Brazil.

The Tupi word for dog is yaguara, and for wolf, yagua-men, or old dog.

Among the linguistically distinct peoples found in the latter area are the Tupi, Arawaks, and Caribs.

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