ngapi
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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Transliteration of Burmese ငါးပိ (nga:pi., literally “pressed fish”).
Noun
ngapi (uncountable)
- (cooking) A pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste.
- 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
- The rivers and lakes abound with fish, from which the inhabitants prepare their favourite condiment of ngapee.
- 1880, J.H. Titcomb, chapter VII, in Personal Recollections of British Burma and Its Church Mission Work in 1878-79:
- Passing by Henzada, because intending to return thither, we went on to Yangdoon or Nyoungdoon, a large and thriving ports celebrated for its fishing trade. Of this fact we were soon abundantly convinced by the abominable smell of nga-pee, a kind of dried and putrid fish, of which the Burmese are particularly fond; nor by that circumstance alone, for we counted a hundred and twenty large trading vessels anchored along the bank.
- 1882, James George Scott, The Burman: His Life and Notions, Ch. xxviii: "Nga-pee":
- Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.
- 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:
Hyponyms
Translations
a pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste
Further reading
- Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "ngapi, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2003.
Anagrams
Ngarrindjeri
Alternative forms
Pronoun
ngapi
- I; the first person singular emphatic personal pronoun.
Swahili
Pronunciation
Adjective
-ngapi (declinable)
Usage notes
Follows the noun and behaves like a normal adjective; for example, nyumba ngapi? ("how many houses?").
Inflection
Inflected forms of -ngapi (plural only)
| Noun class | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| m-wa class(I/II) | — | wangapi |
| m-mi class(III/IV) | — | mingapi |
| ji-ma class(V/VI) | — | mangapi |
| ki-vi class(VII/VIII) | — | vingapi |
| n class(IX/X) | — | ngapi |
| u class(XI) | — | see n(X) or ma(VI) class |
| pa class(XVI) | pangapi | |
| ku class(XVII) | kungapi | |
| mu class(XVIII) | mungapi |