chupa

chupa (plural chupas or chupot)

1. Alternative form of chuppah.

From Philippine Spanish chupa, probably from Malay cupak.

chupa (plural chupas)

1. (Philippines, historical) A unit of volume equivalent to around 375 mL.

• Cha-pu, Chapu, Pa-ch'u

Attested since circa 1850. From Spanish chupa, from French jupe; ultimately from Arabic جبة.^[1] Doublet of xibón.

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃupa]

chupa m (plural chupas)

1. doublet; jacket

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chupa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chupa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chupa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

chupa m sg

1. lenited form of cupa

Borrowed from Malay cupak (pronounced /t͡ʃupaʔ/). First documented in the Ou-Mun Kei Leok published in 1751.

chupa

1. wooden or bamboo cylinder, closed at one end, formerly used to measure dry goods such as rice or beans, as well as liquids like milk

• Not to be confused with chupâ (“to suck”).

• chuchupa, chupachupa

• Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “chupa”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 409

From Portuguese and Spanish chupar and Kabuverdianu tchupa.

chupa

1. to suck

chupa

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

• Hyphenation: chu‧pa

chupa

1. tail

chupa m sg

1. lenited form of cupa

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃupa/ [ˈt͡ʃu.pa]
• Rhymes: -upa
• Syllabification: chu‧pa

Borrowed from French jupe.

chupa f (plural chupas)

1. leather jacket

   Synonyms: chaqueta, cazadora

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chupa

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

Probably from Malay cupak.

chupa f (plural chupas)

1. (Philippines, historical) chupa (unit of volume)

• → English: chupa

• “chupa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃu.pɑ/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃʰu.pɑ/

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• Hyphenation: chu‧pa

chupa class IX (plural chupa class X)

1. bottle, vial

• kichupa

• → Kikuyu: cuba

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃu.pɑ/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃu.pɑ/

chupa class V (plural machupa class VI)

1. augmentative of chupa (n class_(IX/X)): big bottle, demijohn

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃuˈpaʔ/ [t͡ʃʊˈpaʔ]
  • IPA^(key): (no palatal assimilation) /tsuˈpaʔ/ [t͡sʊˈpaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: chu‧pa

chupâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜓᜉ) (colloquial, vulgar)

1. alternative spelling of tsupa