Glossary
Mẽbêngôkre words
Words in the Mẽbêngôkre language and acronyms used on this site, with their meaning and source.
- Mẽbêngôkre
- The people’s own name: “people of the water hole”. Also the name of their language, the same spoken by the Kayapó.Source: Xikrin Life Plan
- Kukradjà
- The Xikrin way of being and living: living with the forest, together with the forest and for the forest.Source: Xikrin PGTA
- Kubengêt
- The elders, “those who truly know”. The council of elders and chiefs is the highest collective decision-making body.Source: Xikrin Life Plan
- Menire
- Xikrin women.Source: Annex 1 of the Restaura Amazônia project
- Meprire
- Childhood. “Since meprire”: since early childhood.Source: Annex 1 of the Restaura Amazônia project
- Ngàb
- The warriors’ house, the political space for decisions in each village.Source: Xikrin Life Plan
- Aben Kaben Marimei
- Name of the Xikrin Territorial and Environmental Management Plan: “knowledge shared by all”.Source: Annex 1 of the Restaura Amazônia project
- Kwyrykangô
- A Xikrin ritual and cultural festival.Source: Berê Network Institutional Portfolio
- Kuben
- Non-Indigenous people.Source: Former Association website
- TI (Terra Indígena)
- Indigenous Territory: land officially recognized by the Brazilian state for the exclusive use of an Indigenous people.Source: Brazilian Federal Constitution
- SAF
- Agroforestry system (sistema agroflorestal): native trees and crops grown together, like a forest that produces.Source: Restoration Plan
- CLPI
- Free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) of the community.Source: Annex 1 of the Restaura Amazônia project
- PGTA
- Territorial and Environmental Management Plan.Source: Xikrin PGTA
- PBA-CI
- Indigenous Component of the Basic Environmental Plan of the Belo Monte dam: the compensation and mitigation program for Indigenous peoples.Source: Former Association website
Spellings follow the cited sources. Standardization of written Mẽbêngôkre is carried out by the Association, with Kroire Xikrin.