sipa

See also: sıpa and šípa

English

Noun

sipa (uncountable)

1. A traditional Filipino team sport in which players kick a soft ball over a net in the middle of the court.

Anagrams

• AIPs, AISP, APIs, ASPI, IAPs, IASP, IPAs, PIAs, PISA, Pais, Pisa, SAPI, pais

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Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧pa
• IPA^(key): /ˈsipaʔ/

Noun

sipa

1. kick

   Synonym: tindak

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Faroese

Verb

sipa

1. to imply, to allude to

Conjugation

Conjugation of sipa (group v-30)
infinitive	sipa
supine	sipað
participle (a6)1	sipandi	sipaður
	present	past
first singular	sipi	sipaði
second singular	sipar	sipaði
third singular	sipar	sipaði
plural	sipa	sipaðu
	imperative
singular	sipa!
plural	sipið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

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Finnish

Etymology

Acronym from siivous (“cleaning”) +‎ palvelus (“service”). See siivouspalvelus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsipɑ/, [ˈs̠ipɑ]
• Rhymes: -ipɑ
• Syllabification^(key): si‧pa

Noun

sipa

1. (military slang) barracks room cleaning

Declension

Inflection of sipa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		sipa	sipat
genitive		sipan	sipojen
partitive		sipaa	sipoja
illative		sipaan	sipoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		sipa	sipat
accusative	nom.	sipa	sipat
	gen.	sipan
genitive		sipan	sipojen sipainrare
partitive		sipaa	sipoja
inessive		sipassa	sipoissa
elative		sipasta	sipoista
illative		sipaan	sipoihin
adessive		sipalla	sipoilla
ablative		sipalta	sipoilta
allative		sipalle	sipoille
essive		sipana	sipoina
translative		sipaksi	sipoiksi
instructive		—	sipoin
abessive		sipatta	sipoitta
comitative		—	sipoineen

Possessive forms of sipa (type kala)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	sipani	sipamme
2nd person	sipasi	sipanne
3rd person	sipansa

Derived terms

• sipata

Anagrams

• Pasi, aspi

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Ibaloi

Pronoun

sipa

1. (interrogative) who

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin sīc post.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.pa/
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: sì‧pa

Adverb

sipa

1. (archaic, regional, Bologna) Synonym of sì (“yes”)
   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto XVIII, lines 58–61, page 270:

     E non pur io qui piango bolognese; ¶ anzi n’è questo loco tanto pieno, ¶ che tante lingue non son ora apprese ¶ a dicer ‘ sipa ’ tra Sàvena e Reno

     Not the sole Bolognese am I who weeps here; nay, rather is this place so full of them, that not so many tongues to-day are taught 'twixt Reno and Savena to say sipa

References

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

Anagrams

• Pasi, Pisa, aspi, spai, spia

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Dalmatian, from Latin sēpia. Compare sépija.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sîpa/
• Hyphenation: si‧pa

Noun

sȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling си̏па)

1. cuttlefish

Declension

Declension of sipa

	singular	plural
nominative	sȉpa	sipe
genitive	sipe	sȋpā
dative	sipi	sipama
accusative	sipu	sipe
vocative	sipo	sipe
locative	sipi	sipama
instrumental	sipom	sipama

References

• “sipa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Malay sepak. Compare Bikol Central sipa, Cebuano sipa, and Waray-Waray sipa.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧pa
• IPA^(key): /ˈsipaʔ/, [ˈsi.pɐʔ]

Noun

sipà

1. kick; kicking

   Synonyms: tadyak, sikad

2. (sports) sipa (Filipino traditional native sport)
3. (colloquial) kicking out (such as a worker from employment)

   Synonyms: sisante, sibak

Derived terms

• maninipa
• manipa
• pagkasipa
• pagsipa
• sipaan
• sipain
• sumipa
• tagasipa

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: si‧pa
• IPA^(key): /siˈpaʔ/, [sɪˈpaʔ]

Noun

sipâ

1. (Catholicism) abstinence and prayer for a dead relative (in one or various novenas ending in tibaw)

See also

• lamay
• pulaw
• padasal

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Tausug

Noun

sipa

1. a kick

Verb

sipa (used in the form magsipa)

1. to kick