Catalan edit

Etymology edit

First documented in 1932; probably a regressive derivative of tifarada (piece of shit).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tifa m (plural tifes)

  1. (vulgar) shit

Hausa edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from English tipper.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /tíː.fàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [tíː.ɸàː]

Noun edit

tīfā̀ f (plural tīfōfī, possessed form tīfàr̃)

  1. dump truck
  2. sand truck

Icelandic edit

Verb edit

tifa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative tifaði, supine tifað)

  1. to tick (make a ticking sound, e.g. of a clock)

Conjugation edit

Further reading edit

Italian edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈti.fa/
  • Rhymes: -ifa
  • Hyphenation: tì‧fa

Etymology 1 edit

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek τύφη (túphē, a species of cattail).

Noun edit

tifa f (plural tife)

  1. reedmace, bulrush, cattail (Typha latifolia)
    Synonym: stiancia

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

tifa

  1. inflection of tifare:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams edit

Jamamadí edit

Verb edit

tifa

  1. (Banawá) to drink water

References edit

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

 

  • Hyphenation: ti‧fa

Noun edit

tifa f (plural tifas)

  1. cattail (any of several perennial herbs of the genus Typha)

Ternate edit

 
dowongi

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

tifa

  1. the tifa drum, part of the tifa totobuang ensemble

References edit

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh