sherpa

See also: Sherpa

English

WOTD – 15 February 2011

Etymology

From Sherpa. The verb derives from the noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)pə/

• Audio (AU):

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Noun

sherpa (countable and uncountable, plural sherpas)

1. (countable) A local mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Nepalese Sherpa people so employed.
2. (countable) An expert accompanying a high-ranking leader to a summit meeting.
3. A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool, or fleece.

Descendants

• → Italian: sherpa

Translations

local employed as mountain guide/ porter

• Albanian: sherpa
• Catalan: xerpa m
• Chinese:

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• Czech: šerpa (cs) m, sherpa m, nosič (cs) m
• Dutch: sjerpa m, sherpa (nl) m
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• Finnish: sherpa
• Hungarian: serpa (hu)
• Nepali: शेर्पा (śerpā)
• Russian: ше́рпа (ru) m (šérpa), проводни́к-ше́рпа m (provodník-šérpa)
• Tibetan: ཤར་པ (shar pa)

expert

• Russian: шерп (ru) m (šerp), ше́рпа (ru) m (šérpa)
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See also

• advance person, emissary

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

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, shrape, sphear

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• sjerpa

Etymology

Borrowed from English sherpa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛr.paː/
• Hyphenation: sher‧pa

Noun

sherpa m (plural sherpa's)

1. A sherpa, local mountain guide/porter.
2. A sherpa, expert accompanying a high-ranking leader to a summit meeting.

Related terms

• Sherpa

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Italian

Alternative forms

• scerpa

Etymology

Borrowed from English sherpa, from Tibetan ཤར་པ། (shar pa, “easterner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɛr.pa/
• Rhymes: -ɛrpa
• Hyphenation: shèr‧pa

Noun

sherpa m or f (invariable)

1. Sherpa (member of a Himalayan ethnic group)
2. sherpa (mountain guide or porter)

References

• sherpa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɾpa/ [ˈʃeɾ.pa]

Noun

sherpa m or f (plural sherpas)

1. sherpa
2. Sherpa

Further reading

• “sherpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014