sapisapi

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Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sa‧pi‧sa‧pi

Noun

sapisapi

  1. a two-stick diamond-shaped kite
  2. the pugnose ponyfish (Secutor insidiator)

Tagalog

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Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Ternateño Chavacano chapi-chapi (“walking slowly, sailing slowly; a type of kite made of folded paper”), from Mardijker capicapi (“walking slowly”). Compare Ilocano sapisapi, Kapampangan sapisapi, Bikol Central sapi-sapi, Cebuano sapisapi, and Chamorro såppesåppe (“type of kite”). See also Malay capik (“limping”), and Javanese ꦕꦥꦺ (capé, “tired, exhausted, weak, weary”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sápisapì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜉᜒᜐᜉᜒ)

  1. small two-stick kite with tail that can be quickly constructed from cheap materials

See also

Further reading

  • “sapisapi”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
  • “sapisapi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Medina, Isagani R. (2001) Ang Kabite Sa Gunita: Essays on Cavite and the Philippine Revolution‎ (in Tagalog), University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN
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