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

• “chupa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chupa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chupa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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 chupar 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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• Hyphenation: chu‧pa

chupa (n class, plural chupa)

1. bottle, vial

• kichupa

• Kikuyu: cuba