sirpis

From Proto-Baltic *serp-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sírpas,, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“crooked tree, hook, sickle”) with an extra suffix p. ^[1]

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sirpis m (2nd declension)

1. sickle (hand tool with a semicircular blade used for cutting grass, cereals, etc.)

   sirpis un āmurs ― hammer and sickle (Communist symbol)

   no rīta noskrien septiņas verstis līdz kunga druvai, ar sirpi nopļauj pūrvietu rudzu ― in the morning she ran seven leagues to get to (her) lord's corn fields, (and) with a sickle she mowed the rye

2. crescent (an object or arrangement, especially the moon, in the form of a sickle, with tapering extremities), a moonsickle

   mēness sirpis ― moon crescent (lit. moon’s sickle)

   katrā mēnesī ir tikai viena pati reize, kad vakarstundā rietumu debesīs parādās jaunā mēness tievais un smailais sirpis ― every month there is only one time when, at night, in the western sky, the thin, pointed crescent (sickle) of the new moon appears

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