naipe

Borrowed from Spanish naipe, from Catalan naip.

• Hyphenation: nai‧pe

naipe m (plural naipes)

1. (card games) suit (card game category)

   Synonym: pinta

2. (by extension) group, set
3. (by extension, music) section (of a band or orchestra)

• baralho (“deck”)

• naipe on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Borrowed from Catalan naip. Most plausibly from Arabic نَائِب (nāʔib, “deputy”), the second-highest court card in the Mamluk deck.

Alternative theories derive it from Arabic لَعِب (laʕib, “game”) or, with regard to the Islamic prohibition against card games, Arabic مَعِيب (maʕīb, “blameworthy”). These appear less likely, though interchange of sonorants occurs quite often in Ibero-Romance borrowings from Arabic.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaipe/ [ˈnai̯.pe]
• Rhymes: -aipe
• Syllabification: nai‧pe

naipe m (plural naipes)

1. playing card

   Synonym: carta

2. (in the plural) deck of cards

   Synonyms: baraja, juego de naipes

• “naipe”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014