cipayo

Portuguese

Noun

cipayo m (plural cipayos)

Obsolete spelling of sipaio

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

IPA^(key): (Latin America) /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)

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

Further reading

“cipayo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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