sipari

See also: Sipari

Italian

Noun

sipari m

1. plural of sipario

Anagrams

• Parisi, aspiri, ispira, raspii, sparii, spirai

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *sipari; compare Apalaí xipari, Trió sipari, Wayana sipari, Waiwai sipari, Macushi sipari, Pemon supari, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi separi, Sranan Tongo spari.

Pronunciation

• (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key): [ʃipʲaːɺ̢i]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [ʃpʲaːɺ̢i]

Noun

sipari (possessed sipariry)

1. whiptail stingray, family Dasyatidae
2. the smooth-back river stingray, Potamotrygon orbignyi

References

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[1], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 369
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “siṕari”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 437; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[2], Paris, 1956, page 427