sumpitan

From Malay sumpitan.

sumpitan (plural sumpitans or sumpitan)

1. The sumpit.

• “sumpitan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• map units, putanism

Compare sumpit.

• Hyphenation: sum‧pi‧tan

sumpitan

1. oilfish (Ruvettus pretiosus)

sumpitan (Jawi spelling سومڤيتن, plural sumpitan-sumpitan or sumpitan²)

1. alternative form of sumpit (“blowpipe”)

• → Arabic: سَبَطَانَة (sabaṭāna), زَرْبَطَانَة (zarbaṭāna), زَبَطَانَة (zabaṭāna)
  • → Catalan: sarabatana, sarbatana
  • → French: sarbacane
    • → English: sarbacane
  • → Italian: cerbottana
  • → Portuguese: zarabatana, sarabatana, zarvatana
  • → Spanish: cerbatana
• → English: sumpitan
• → Persian: زبطانه (zabatâne), زربطانه (zarbatâne).