sherpa

WOTD – 15 February 2011    

See also Sherpa

English

Etymology

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The verb derives from the noun.

Noun

sherpa (plural sherpas)

Wikipedia

1. A male of the Sherpa people employed as a mountain guide or porter.
2. An expert sent by a country’s leader to a summit meeting.
3. A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool, or fleece.

Translations

Sherpa employed as mountain guide

• Albanian: sherpa (sq)
• Catalan: xerpa (ca) m
• Czech: šerpa (cs) m, sherpa (cs) m, nosič (cs) m
• Dutch: sherpa (nl) m
• Finnish: sherpa (fi)

• Hungarian: serpa (hu)
• Nepali: शेर्पा (ne) (śērpā)
• Russian: шерпа (ru) (šerpa) m, проводник-шерпа (ru) (provodnik-šerpa) m
• Tibetan: ཤར་པ (bo)

expert

• Russian: шерп (ru) (šerp) m, шерпа (ru) (šerpa) m

Verb

sherpa (third-person singular simple present sherpas, present participle sherpaing, simple past and past participle sherpaed)

1. (rare) To serve as a guide or porter for another.

Anagrams

• pasher, phaser, phrase, seraph, shaper, sharpe, sphear