sumpitan

English

Etymology

From Malay sumpitan.

Noun

sumpitan (plural sumpitans or sumpitan)

1. A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, used by indigenous peoples of Borneo and adjacent islands.

Related terms

• sumpit

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sumpitan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• map units, putanism

Cebuano

Etymology

Compare sumpit.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sum‧pi‧tan

Noun

sumpitan

1. oilfish (Ruvettus pretiosus)

Malay

Alternative forms

• سومڤيتن

Noun

sumpitan (Jawi spelling سومڤيتن)

1. Alternative form of sumpit (“blowpipe”)

Descendants

• → Arabic: سَبَطَانَة (sabaṭāna), زَرْبَطَانَة (zarbaṭāna), زَبَطَانَة (zabaṭāna)
  • → Catalan: sarabatana, sarbatana
  • → French: sarbacane
  • → Italian: cerbottana
  • → Portuguese: zarabatana, sarabatana, zarvatana
  • → Spanish: cerbatana
• → English: sumpitan
• → Persian: زبطانه (zabatâne), زربطانه (zarbatâne).