naip

Ultimately from Arabic نَائِب‎ (nāʔib, “deputy”), the second-highest court card in the Mamluk deck.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈnajp/

naip m (plural naips)

1. playing card

   Synonym: carta

• → Spanish: naipe

• “naip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “naip”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “naip” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “naip” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From English knife.

naip

1. knife

From Ottoman Turkish نائب‎ (naib), from Arabic نَائِب‎ (nāʔib).

naip (definite accusative naibi, plural naipler)

1. regent
   • 1938 May 5, Anadolu Agency, “Göring”, in Açık Söz, page 1:

     General Göring, orada yazlık ikametgâhında naib prens Paulu ziyaret etmiştir.

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• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “naip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013) The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN