chiripá
See also: chiripa
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Quechua chirípak (literally “for the "cold"”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]chiripá m (plural chiripás)
- (Rioplatense, obsolete in Paraguay) a triangular shawl worn on the waist in gaucho culture
- 1888, Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, Ismael[1], Buenos Aires: La Tribuna Nacional:
- La gente de chiripá se sentía contenta y vocinglera, concluida la faena.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (Argentina, Paraguay, obsolete in Uruguay) diaper
Further reading
[edit]- “chiripá”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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