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sapi

1. overcooked and mushy

From Cebuano salapi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pɪʔ/

sapî

1. (humorous) money

   Synonyms: kwarta, salapi

Inherited from Arabic صَبِيّ (ṣabiyy).

sapi m

1. boy, youngster
2. elder son
3. young-looking male

   l-iskof l-ijtít o sapi ― the new bishop is young-looking

   yapati paca o sapi ― my father is still young at heart

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 309

From Malay sapi.

sapi

1. cow

• Nelleke Elisabeth Goudswaard, The Begak (Ida'an) language of Sabah (2005)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsapi/ [ˈsa.pi]
• Rhymes: -api
• Syllabification: sa‧pi

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Inherited from Malay sapi.

sapi (plural sapi-sapi)

1. cattle
2. cow

• sampi

• lembu

From Pilana

sapi (plural sapi-sapi)

1. para-para to put firewood on the fireplace [since 2024]

From Awyu

sapi (plural sapi-sapi)

1. rattan woven bracelet worn by adult men of the Awyu tribe [since 2024]

• “sapi”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

sapi

1. romanization of ꦱꦥꦶ

Cognate with Maranao sapi'.

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sapi

1. cow

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sapi (Jawi spelling ساڤي, plural sapi-sapi or sapi²)

1. cattle
2. cow
3. zebu

• Indonesian: sapi
• → Min Nan: 三丕 (sam-phi)

• "sapi" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

Cognate of Malay sapi. Doublet of sampi. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /sa.pi/
• Rhymes: -pi
• Hyphenation: sa‧pi

sapi

1. ox

   Synonyms: sampi, sapi, watsi, watsya, watsyu

• > Javanese: ꦱꦥꦶ (sapi) (inherited)

• "sapi" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

sapi

1. alternative spelling of saphi

• IPA^(key): [sapʲ]

sapi

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of săpa

sapi

1. (anatomy) face

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sapiq (“contract, harmony, agreement”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsapiʔ/ [ˈsaː.pɪʔ]
• Rhymes: -apiʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧pi

sapì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜉᜒ)

1. act of joining as a member (of an association, etc.)

   Synonyms: pagsapi, pagmimiyembro, anib, pag-anib

2. (business) stock; share (of a corporation, partnership, etc.)

   Synonyms: sosyo, bakas, saping-puhunan, aksiyon

3. something attached or nailed to or against another (to reinforce or strengthen it)

   Synonyms: patibay, patigas

4. (figurative) amulet

   Synonyms: anting-anting, agimat

5. (by extension) possession (by a spirit, demon, etc.)

   Synonym: sanib

• “sapi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*sapiq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• sipa

From Malay sapi.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsa.pi]

sapi

1. cow

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