tifa

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

tifa m (plural tifes)

1. (vulgar) shit

Borrowed from English tipper.

• IPA^(key): /tíː.fàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

tīfā̀ f (plural tīfōfī, possessed form tīfàr̃)

1. dump truck
2. sand truck

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

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

• “tifa” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

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

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

tifa f (plural tife)

1. reedmace, bulrush, cattail (Typha latifolia)

   Synonym: stiancia

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tifa

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

• -fita, fa'ti, fati

tifa

1. (Banawá) to drink water

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Borrowed from New Latin typha, from Ancient Greek τύφη (túphē, “Typha angustata, a species of cattail”).

• Rhymes: -ifɐ
• Hyphenation: ti‧fa

tifa f (plural tifas)

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

• “tifa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “tifa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key):

tifa

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

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