sumpitan
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
sumpitan (plural sumpitans or sumpitan)
- A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, used by indigenous peoples of Borneo and adjacent islands.
Related terms[edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sumpitan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams[edit]
Cebuano[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare sumpit.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: sum‧pi‧tan
Noun[edit]
sumpitan
Malay[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Noun[edit]
sumpitan (Jawi spelling سومڤيتن)
- Alternative form of sumpit (“blowpipe”)
Descendants[edit]
- → Arabic: سَبَطَانَة (sabaṭāna), زَرْبَطَانَة (zarbaṭāna), زَبَطَانَة (zabaṭāna)
- → Catalan: sarabatana, sarbatana
- → French: sarbacane
- → Italian: cerbottana
- → Portuguese: zarabatana, sarabatana, zarvatana
- → Spanish: cerbatana
- → English: sumpitan
- → Persian: زبطانه (zabatâne), زربطانه (zarbatâne).