Sherpa

See also: sherpa

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈʃɝpə/

Noun

Sherpa (plural Sherpas or Sherpa)

1. A member of a particular Himalayan ethnic group living in Nepal and Tibet, known especially as mountaineers.
2. A high-ranking government official who works tirelessly in the background to conclude the text of an official communiqué, typically from a G7 or G20 summit.
   • 2018. Borger, Julian (1 December 2018). "G20 agreement backs 'rules-based' order but bows to Trump on trade reforms". The Guardian. London, United Kingdom. ISSN 0261-3077.

     Sherpas from the European Union and 19 countries worked through the week to salvage a meaningful joint statement, culminating in an all-night session on Friday.

Translations

member of an ethnic group

• Catalan: xerpa m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 夏爾巴人／夏尔巴人 (zh) (Xià'ěrbā Rén)

• German: Sherpa (de) m
• Hindi: शेर्पा (śerpā)
• Hungarian: serpa (hu)
• Nepali: शेर्पा (śerpā)
• Polish: Szerpa (pl) m, Szerpijka f
• Portuguese: xerpa (pt) m or f
• Russian: ше́рпа (ru) m (šérpa)
• Sherpa: ཤེརཔཱ (sherp̄), शेर्पा (sherpā)
• Spanish: sherpa m or f
• Tibetan: ཤར་བ (shar ba)

Proper noun

Sherpa

1. The Southern Tibetan language of these people.

Translations

language

• Catalan: xerpa m
• Finnish: šerpa
• German: Sherpa (de)
• Nepali: शेर्पा भाषा (śerpā bhāṣā)
• Portuguese: xerpa (pt) m
• Russian: шерпский (ru) (šerpskij)
• Sherpa: शेर्वी तम्ङे (sherwī tamnge)
• Tibetan: ཤར་པའི་སྐད (shar pa'i skad)

Further reading

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sherpa terms
• Ethnologue entry for Sherpa, xsr ⁠

Anagrams

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, shrape, sphear