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

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

Alternative theories derive it from Arabic لَعِب‎ (laʿib, “game”) or, with regard to the Islamic prohibition against card games, Arabic مَعِيب‎ (maʿīb, “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

• castillo de naipes

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