sapisapi

• Hyphenation: sa‧pi‧sa‧pi

sapisapi

1. a two-stick diamond-shaped kite
2. the pugnose ponyfish (Secutor insidiator)

• chapi-chapi
• tsapi-tsapi
• sapi-sapi

Borrowed from Ternateño Chavacano chapi-chapi (“walking slowly, sailing slowly; a type of kite made of folded paper”), from Mardijker capicapi (“walking slowly”). Compare Ilocano sapisapi, Kapampangan sapisapi, Bikol Central sapi-sapi, Cebuano sapisapi, and Chamorro såppesåppe (“type of kite”). See also Malay capik (“limping”), and Javanese ꦕꦥꦺ (capé, “tired, exhausted, weak, weary”).

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

sápisapì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜉᜒᜐᜉᜒ)

1. small two-stick kite with tail that can be quickly constructed from cheap materials

• “sapisapi”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
• “sapisapi”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Medina, Isagani R. (2001) Ang Kabite Sa Gunita: Essays on Cavite and the Philippine Revolution‎^[1] (in Tagalog), University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN