ngapi
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Transliteration of Burmese ငါးပိ (nga:pi., literally “pressed fish”).
Noun[edit]
ngapi (uncountable)
- (cooking) A pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste.
- 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
- The rivers and lakes abound with fish, from which the inhabitants prepare their favourite condiment of ngapee.
- 1880, J.H. Titcomb, Personal Recollections of British Burma and Its Church Mission Work in 1878–79, Ch. vii:
- Passing by Henzada, because intending to return thither, we went on to Yangdoon or Nyoungdoon, a large and thriving ports celebrated for its fishing trade. Of this fact we were soon abundantly convinced by the abominable smell of nga-pee, a kind of dried and putrid fish, of which the Burmese are particularly fond; nor by that circumstance alone, for we counted a hundred and twenty large trading vessels anchored along the bank.
- 1882, James George Scott, The Burman: His Life and Notions, Ch. xxviii: "Nga-pee":
- Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.
- 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
Hyponyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste
Further reading[edit]
- Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "ngapi, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2003.
Anagrams[edit]
Ngarrindjeri[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ngapi
- I; the first person singular emphatic personal pronoun.
Swahili[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Adjective[edit]
-ngapi (declinable)
Usage notes[edit]
Follows the noun and behaves like a normal adjective; for example, nyumba ngapi? ("how many houses?").
Inflection[edit]
Inflected forms of -ngapi