chapín

See also: chapîn

Ladino

Alternative forms

• chapin

Etymology

Influenced by Portuguese sapato.

Noun

chapín m (Hebrew spelling ג׳אפין, plural chapines)

1. (Izmir, footwear) shoe (a protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material)

   Synonyms: kalsado (Edirne, Istanbul), kondurya, sapato

   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[1], Nur Afakot, page 434:

     Me disho: “Si tinías un kordoniko de chapín, pudías adovar la chanta’.

     [Somebody] told me, ‘If you had a shoelace, you could fix the bag.’

   • 2013 November 30, Jacobo Sefamí, Miriam Moscona, Por mi boka: Textos de la diáspora sefardí en ladino‎^[2], Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, →ISBN, page 197:

     Levantí los brazos komo para kitar la ropa ke se balanceaba en la kayentor del sol. Me agarraron de los talones desnudos de los pieses i juntaron mis partesikas en una sábana. De los talones desnudos me agarraron, de los pieses sin chapines, eshkapados, komo los de mi padre.

     I lifted my arms so as to remove my clothes that were swinging in the sun’s heat. They covered me from my feet’s naked heels and they bound my little parts together in a bedsheet. They completely covered my shoeless feet’s naked heels, like my father’s.

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish chapín, related to chapa (“type of metal plate, seal”), of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaˈpin/ [t͡ʃaˈpĩn]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: cha‧pín

Adjective

chapín (feminine chapina, masculine plural chapines, feminine plural chapinas)

1. bow-legged
   • 2015 December, “Nochebuena antigua”, in Prensa Libre‎^[3]:

     Para ello, la incipiente imaginería chapina tallaba figuras en madera de José y María, el niño Jesús —el misterio—, los reyes magos, pastorcillos y ovejas; la mayoría, con rasgos europeos.

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Noun

chapín m (plural chapines)

1. clog
2. (Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras) Guatemalan
3. (Colombia) kid (child)

Derived terms

• chapín de la reina

Further reading

• “chapín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

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