cipayo

Portuguese

Noun

cipayo m (plural cipayos)

1. Obsolete spelling of sipaio.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese sipaio, from Persian سپاهی (sepâhi, “soldier, horseman”), from سپاه (sepâh, “army”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θiˈpaʝo/ [θiˈpa.ʝo]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /siˈpaʝo/ [siˈpa.ʝo]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America, Philippines) /siˈpaʝo/ [siˈpa.ʝo]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /siˈpaʃo/ [siˈpa.ʃo]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /siˈpaʒo/ [siˈpa.ʒo]

• Rhymes: -aʝo
• Syllabification: ci‧pa‧yo

Noun

cipayo m (plural cipayos)

1. sepoy
2. (Latin America, derogatory) a local who serves foreign interests

Further reading

• “cipayo”, 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