naipe

Portuguese

naipes

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish naipe, from Catalan naip, ultimately from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib, “deputy”), the second-highest court card in the Mamluk deck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaj.pi/
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaj.pe/
• IPA^(key): /ˈnaj.pɨ/
• Hyphenation: nai‧pe

Noun

naipe m (plural s)

1. (card games) suit (card game category)

   Synonym: pinta

2. (by extension) group, set
3. (by extension, music) section (of a band or orchestra)

See also

• baralho (“deck”)

Further reading

• naipe on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

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Spanish

Etymology

From Catalan naip, ultimately from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib, “deputy”), the second-highest court card in the Mamluk deck.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaipe/ [ˈnai̯.pe]

Noun

naipe m (plural naipes)

1. playing card

   Synonym: carta

2. (in the plural) deck of cards

   Synonym: baraja

Further reading

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