сыпӑк

Chuvash

Noun

сыпӑк • (syp̬ăk) (plural сыпӑксем) 

1. joint, juncture
2. (architecture) space between any two balusters of a flight of stairs
3. link (element of a chain)
4. chapter, section (of a book)
5. part, branch; team, squad (smallest unit in a hierarchy or sequence)
6. stage
7. verse (in a song)
8. generation
9. degree of relationship (as in first cousin, second cousin etc.)
10. sector, quarter, area
11. (linguistics) syllable

    хупӑ сыпӑк ― hup̬ă syp̬ăk ― closed syllable

    уҫӑ сыпӑк ― uś̬ă syp̬ăk ― open syllable

Further reading

• “сыпӑк”, in Электронлă сăмахсар‎^[1] (overall work in Russian and Chuvash), 1996.