naip

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [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, 2024
• “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