naipe

Portuguese

naipes

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish naipe, from Catalan naip, most likely from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib, “deputy”), the second-highest court card in the Mamluk deck. See naip for more.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnaj.pi/ [ˈnaɪ̯.pi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnaj.pi/ [ˈnaɪ̯.pi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈnaj.pe/ [ˈnaɪ̯.pe]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈnaj.pɨ/

• Hyphenation: nai‧pe

Noun

naipe m (plural naipes)

1. (card games) suit (card game category)

   Synonym: pinta f

2. (by extension) group, set
3. (by extension, music) section (of a band or orchestra)

See also

• baralho (“deck”)

Further reading

• naipe on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Catalan naip, most likely from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib, “deputy”), the second-highest court card in the Mamluk deck. See naip for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaipe/ [ˈnai̯.pe]
• Rhymes: -aipe
• Syllabification: nai‧pe

Noun

naipe m (plural naipes)

1. playing card

   Synonym: carta f

2. (in the plural) deck of cards

   Synonyms: baraja f, juego de naipes m

Derived terms

• castillo de naipes

 

Descendants

• → Portuguese: naipe

Further reading

• “naipe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28