chipa

From Paraguayan Guarani chipa.

chipa (plural chipas)

1. A kind of baked cheese-flavoured roll eaten in Paraguay.

• Picha, paich

• IPA^(key): /ʃi.pa/
• Homophones: chipas, chipât

chipa

1. third-person singular past historic of chiper

chipa

1. to insert
2. to close

chipa

1. spit; spittle

Borrowed from English cheap.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃipa/

chipa

1. cheap

   Antonym: chera

   • 2010, “Partaka”, in Habemus LIA, page 97:

     ... qui pose divenabas granda vendeyi specaligita pri irgo chipa, ne nur nova, ma anke uzita.

     ... which had later become big markets specialized for anything cheap, not only new, but also used.

• chipigar (“to cheapen, debase, lower”)
• chipeso (“cheapness”)

• → Esperanto: ĉipa

• Rhymes: -a

chipa

1. chipa (cheese roll)

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “chipa”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 20, column 1

chipa

1. inflection of chipar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Borrowed from a Nguni language (compare Northern Ndebele -tshipa), from English cheap.

-chipa (infinitive kuchipa)

1. be cheap, be inexpensive

   Antonym: -dhura

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃipa/ [ˈt͡ʃi.pa]
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: chi‧pa

chipa f (plural chipas)

1. (Colombia) basket
2. (Colombia) roll (something with a cylindrical shape)
3. chipa

• “chipa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025