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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD JIVARO

From Spanish jíbaro, from Shuar shuar people.
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PRONUNCIATION OF JIVARO

Jivaro  [ˈhɪːvərəu] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JIVARO

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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Jivaro is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES JIVARO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Jivaroan peoples

Jivaroan peoples refers to groups of indigenous peoples in the headwaters of the Marañon River and its tributaries, in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador. These groups identify speakers of distinct languages of the language family of the same name. The Jivaro people are famous for their head-hunting raids and shrinking the heads from these raids. These head-hunting raids usually occur once a year in one particular Jivaro neighborhood. These raiding parties usually only attack one homestead per raid, killing the men, spearing the older women to death, and taking younger women as their brides. Once the heads have been collected they are shrunk by cutting the skull vertically and removing the skull and jaw bone. Then, the head is boiled and later mixed with hot gravel and sand, shrinking the head to the size of a large orange. The head is sewn along the lips, which are blackened with charcoal. Jivaro religion usually involves a god and goddess. The Jivaro god, Tsungi, is the god of shamanism, and the Jivaro goddess, Nungui, refers to mother earth. Nungui is described as being a short and large woman, dressed in a black dress.

Definition of Jivaro in the English dictionary

The first definition of Jivaro in the dictionary is a member of a group of sub-tribes native to the Amazonian forests of Peru and Ecuador, formerly noted for their warlike nature and head-shrinking rituals. Other definition of Jivaro is as modifier. Jivaro is also any of the languages spoken by the Jivaro people.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH JIVARO


Crowe
krəu

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JIVARO

JJ.
Jly

WORDS THAT END LIKE JIVARO

Carbonaro
Caro
Catanzaro
claro
faro
guacharo
haro
karo
Kilimanjaro
Kitagawa Utamaro
Mohenjo-Daro
Pesaro
picaro
pifferaro
saguaro
sahuaro
taro
Tupamaro
Utamaro
zingaro

Synonyms and antonyms of Jivaro in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Jivaro» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JIVARO

Find out the translation of Jivaro to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Jivaro from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Jivaro» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

Jivaro
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jíbaros
570 millions of speakers

English

Jivaro
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Jivaro
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Jivaro
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Jivaro
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Jivaro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Jivaro
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Jivaro
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jivaro
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Jivaro
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Jivaro
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Jivaro
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jivaro
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Jivaro
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Jivaro
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जीवारो
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Jivaro
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Jivaro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Jivaro
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Jivaro
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Jivaro
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Jivaro
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Jivaro
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Jivaro
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Jivaro
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Jivaro

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JIVARO»

The term «Jivaro» is regularly used and occupies the 104.561 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JIVARO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Jivaro

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JIVARO»

Discover the use of Jivaro in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Jivaro and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Jívaro, People of the Sacred Waterfalls
The Jívaro (Shuar) represent one of the most important and political well-organized groups of South American Indians, and Harner's work, reissued here, will become the major introduction in English to these people for future students.
Michael J. Harner, 1984
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Jivaro Kill
Someone using poisoned darts is killing people in Los Angeles and taking their heads!
Robert L. Hecker, 2003
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Jivaro: Head-Hunters of the Amazon
The Jivaro Indians of the Peru-Ecuador interior have long been renowned for their ferocity and cruelty in warfare; they are also shamanistic, communing with ancient spectres through the ingestion of poisonous hallucinogens.
Bertrand Flornoy, 2012
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Law and Economic Organization: A Comparative Study of ...
One further mechanism for suppressing wealth distinctions is the practice of demanding gifts, something that nonshaman Jivaro do frequently. Harner notes that a request for a gift cannot be denied and that serious consequences befall the ...
Katherine S. Newman, 1983
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Haoma and Harmaline: The Botanical Identity of the ...
§41 The use of yage among the more aggressive and individualistic Jivaro of eastern Peru is somewhat differently oriented in Harner's (1968) description: The Jivaro Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon believe that witchcraft is the cause of the ...
David Stophlet Flattery, Martin Schwartz, 1989
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LIFE
Among the many strange Indians who live on the isolated slopes of the Andes foothills in Ecuador and Peru is the fierce Jivaro tribe which uses blowguns, lives by a whole set of taboos based on the belief that plants and animals have souls ...
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The Jealous Potter
However, to be precise, one must add that Jivaro myths bring in a third type of communication between the various levels of the universe. They say that an ogre attempted to kill Etsa, the sun, by pinning him down with one of the posts from the  ...
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1988
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Weekly World News
"It's time to turn the tables and terrorize the terrorists," explains a Defense Department insider. The headhunters, to be deployed in small, mobile units, are being recruited from the notorious Jivaro tribe of southern Ecuador. "The Jivaro are the ...
9
Western Expansion and Indigenous Peoples: The Heritage of ...
The presence of troops, white settlers, merchants and missionaries prevents the Jivaro from realizing in actual life the most important aspect of the Jivaro male role: the enacting of the warrior. Consequently individual men may consider ...
Elias Sevilla-Casas, 1977
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The Films of Joseph H. Lewis
Following two establishing shots of Jivaro carrying a lamb outside a shack, an extended scene occurs lasting about three minutes and fifteen seconds ending with Halliday's disruptive offscreen voice. It begins with a cut to the interior. Jivaro  ...
Gary D. Rhodes, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JIVARO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Jivaro is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lola Goes North! See First Pics of the Toronto Premiere of Kinky Boots
... Erica Peck, Andrew Scanlon, David Silvestri, Isaiah Slater, Jivaro Smith, Justin Stadnyk, Kaden Stephen, Geoff Stevens, Madeleine Suddaby, ... «Playbill.com, Jun 15»
2
Tony-Winning Hit Kinky Boots Opens in Canada
... Erica Peck, Andrew Scanlon, David Silvestri, Isaiah Slater, Jivaro Smith, Justin Stadnyk, Kaden Stephen, Geoff Stevens, Madeleine Suddaby, ... «Playbill.com, Jun 15»
3
The Prayer of the Five Widows
Barbara Youderian continues to serve in the Ecuadorean jungles, at the outstation of Cangaime among the Jivaro headhunters. Olive Fleming ... «ChristianityToday.com, Jun 15»
4
Kinky Boots Stomps Into Canada Beginning Tonight
... Erica Peck, Andrew Scanlon, David Silvestri, Isaiah Slater, Jivaro Smith, Justin Stadnyk, Kaden Stephen, Geoff Stevens, Madeleine Suddaby, ... «Playbill.com, Jun 15»
5
Experts Discover Ancient Gold Trade Route Between UK And …
In 1599, a Spanish governor in Ecuador levied a tax so big on the Jivaro tribe that they decided to get him back by pouring molten gold down ... «Tech Times, Jun 15»
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Randy Lew Films Into the Poker Glacier Video Featuring Game of …
Randy "nanonoko" Lew recently visited Iceland courtesy of Jivaro and filmed short video Into the Glacier, which also stars Games of Thrones' ... «PokerNews.com, Jun 15»
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Startup takes mobile data security to the file level
The inevitability of losing data was something Jivaro Professional Headhunters wanted to combat head-on. The technology industry recruiting ... «TechTarget, Apr 15»
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Video Check Out: Frank Shaw
Sponsors: Vagrant skateboards, Independent trucks, Jivaro wheels, Vox footwear, Hard Luck Mfg, Dakine backpacks, Plague hardware, ... «Transworld Skateboarding, Apr 15»
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Vera Ushers in 'New Era of Data Security'
Vera customers include SterlingBackcheck, Deerfield Management, Dana Foundation, Jivaro Professional Headhunters, K1, Gainsight and ... «Dark Reading, Apr 15»
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Encryption startup Vera locks down transferred documents
In Silicon Valley, the recruiting game is extremely competitive, according to Ron Harrison, founder of Jivaro Professional Headhunters, ... «PCWorld, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Jivaro [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/jivaro>. May 2024 ».
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