Noun: sirpis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | sirpis |
| Accusative | sirpi |
| Genitive | sirpja |
| Dative | sirpim |
| Instrumental | sirpi |
| Locative | sirpī |
| Vocative | sirpi |
Plural
| Nominative | sirpji |
| Accusative | sirpjus |
| Genitive | sirpju |
| Dative | sirpjiem |
| Instrumental | sirpjiem |
| Locative | sirpjos |
| Vocative | sirpji |
Sample Sentences
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sirpis un āmurs (hammer and sickle (Communist symbol))
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no rīta noskrien septiņas verstis līdz kunga druvai, ar sirpi nopļauj pūrvietu rudzu (in the morning she ran seven leagues to get to (her) lord's corn fields, (and) with a sickle she mowed the rye)
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mēness sirpis (moon crescent (lit. moon’s sickle))
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katrā mēnesī ir tikai viena pati reize, kad vakarstundā rietumu debesīs parādās jaunā mēness tievais un smailais sirpis (every month there is only one time when, at night, in the western sky, the thin, pointed crescent (sickle) of the new moon appears)
Nouns inflected like sirpis
sirmis,
sirpis,
skapis,
ķirbis,
ķērpis,
divdabis,
dārzkopis,
ledus skapis,
biškopis,
pārstāvis,
aizstāvis,
šņabis,
debesskrāpis,
šķīvis,
ledusskapis,
krūškurvis,
lavis,
kāmis,
bēbis,
lietuvis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sírpas, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“crooked tree, hook, sickle”) with an extra suffix p.
2. Cognates
3. Cognates include Proto-Slavic *sьrpъ (Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian серп (serp), Bulgarian сърп (sărp), Czech srp, Serbo-Croatian срп, Polish sierp, Upper Sorbian serp, Sanskrit सृणी (sṛṇī, “sickle”), Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē), Latin sarpō (“to cut vines”), Hittite 𒊬𒉺 (šarpa-, “farming tool”). See: Bulgarian Nouns '
сърп', Czech Nouns '
srp', Polish Nouns '
sierp', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἅρπη', Latin Nouns '
sarpō'.
Verbs referencing "sirpis"
Russian Nouns
серп, Ukrainian Nouns
серп, Ancient Greek Nouns
ἅρπη.
Translations