chipula

Chichewa

Etymology

Cognate with Tonga (Malawi) chipura. Potentially from -pula (“to remove from a fire”). This could describe the process of making a knife, referring to heating the metal before taking it off the fire.

Noun

chipula class 7 (plural zipula class 8)

  1. knife

Derived terms

References

  • Steven Paas (2016) Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎[1], Oxford University Press, page 82
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