jabuti

== English == === Etymology === From Brazilian Portuguese jabuti, from Old Tupi îaboti. === Noun === jabuti (plural jabutis) A Brazilian tortoise, especially a yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus). 2006(?), Livia de Almeida, Ana Portella, Brazilian Folktales, Libraries Unlimited (→ISBN): The most popular of all is the jabuti (or Yauti, as it is pronounced in the Tupy language). It is a large turtle, much appreciated as food. Short-legged, slow, weak, and silent, the jabuti in the Amazon tradition is like the fox in the European tales. ==== Related terms ==== jaboticaba === References === jabuti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “jabuti”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Portuguese == === Alternative forms === jaboti (nonstandard) jabutí (1931-prescribed spelling) jaboty (obsolete) === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Old Tupi îaboti. ==== Pronunciation ==== Rhymes: -i Hyphenation: ja‧bu‧ti ==== Noun ==== jabuti m (plural jabutis, feminine (Brazil) jabota, feminine plural (Brazil) jabotas) (zoology) either a yellow-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis denticulatus) or the red-footed tortoise (Chelonoidis carbonarius) Synonyms: jabuti-tinga, jabuti-piranga (Brazil, by extension) any tortoise (terrestrial turtle) (Brazil, law, slang) an amendment to a law which is strange to its main subject, as "tortoises do not climb trees" (Brazilian proverb) (it was put onto the tree by someone) ===== Hypernyms ===== quelónio (Portugal), quelônio (Brazil), tartaruga, testudíneo ===== Coordinate terms ===== (tortoise): cágado, tartaruga marinha ===== Derived terms ===== jabutizinho (diminutive) ===== Descendants ===== → English: jabuti === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== jabuti m (uncountable) an indigenous language spoken in Brazil === Further reading === “jabuti”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026