svipa

• Rhymes: -ɪːpa

svipa f (genitive singular svipu, nominative plural svipur)

1. a riding crop, a whip
2. (biology) a flagellum

• svipa forsæðisfrumu (“flagellum spermatidii”)
• svipa sæðisfrumu (“flagellum spermatozoi”)
• svipu- (“flagellar”)
• svipubaugur forsæðisfrumu (“anulus flagelli spermatidii”)
• svipubaugur sæðisfrumu (“ring centriole”)
• svipudýr (“flagellata”)
• svipudýrasýking (“flagellosis”)
• svipuhópfellir (“flagellar agglutinin”)
• svipukrabbi (“crawfish, rock lobster”)
• svipuloftnet (“whip aerial”)
• svipuþekjufruma (“epitheliocytus flagellatus”)

svipa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative svipaði, supine svipað)

1. (impersonal) to cause to resemble, to cause to look like (idiomatically translated as "resemble, look like" with the dative object as the subject)

   Hundum svipar til eiganda sinna.

   Dogs resemble their owners.

   Þeim svipar saman.

   They look alike.

• svipa til (“to resemble”)
• svipa saman (“to look alike”)
• svipast
• svipast um (“to have a look around”)
• svipast um eftir (“to look around for”)

svipa

1. indefinite genitive plural of svipur

svipa (present tense svipar, past tense svipa, past participle svipa, passive infinitive svipast, present participle svipande, imperative svipa/svip)

1. Alternative form of svipe

• avsip, vipsa