sherpa

From Sherpa. The verb derives from the noun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɜː(ɹ)pə/

• Audio (General Australian):

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sherpa (countable and uncountable, plural sherpas)

1. (countable) A local mountain guide or porter, particularly a male of the Nepalese Sherpa people so employed.
2. (countable) An expert accompanying a high-ranking leader to a summit meeting.
3. A synthetic fabric with a long, thick pile, similar to faux fur, imitation lamb wool, or fleece.

• → Italian: sherpa
• → Portuguese: xerpa

• advance person, emissary

sherpa (third-person singular simple present sherpas, present participle sherpaing, simple past and past participle sherpaed)

1. (rare) To serve as a guide or porter for another.

• E sharp, E-sharp, Harpes, Sharpe, Spehar, e sharp, e-sharp, harpes, hepars, pasher, phares, phaser, phrase, raphes, seraph, shaper, sharpe, shrape, sphear

• sjerpa

Borrowed from English sherpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛr.paː/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: sher‧pa

sherpa m (plural sherpa's)

1. a sherpa, local mountain guide/porter
2. a sherpa, expert accompanying a high-ranking leader to a summit meeting

• Sherpa

• scerpa

Borrowed from English sherpa, from Tibetan ཤར་པ། (shar pa, “easterner”).

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɛr.pa/
• Rhymes: -ɛrpa
• Hyphenation: shèr‧pa

sherpa m or f by sense (invariable)

1. Sherpa (member of a Himalayan ethnic group)
2. sherpa (mountain guide or porter)

• sherpa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɾpa/ [ˈʃeɾ.pa]
• Rhymes: -eɾpa
• Syllabification: sher‧pa

sherpa m or f by sense (plural sherpas)

1. sherpa
2. Sherpa

• “sherpa”, 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