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Meaning of "quippu" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF QUIPPU

quippu  [ˈkiːpuː] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUIPPU

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quippu is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUIPPU


cockapoo
ˈkɒkəˌpuː
coypu
ˈkɔɪpuː
hapu
ˈhɑːpuː
hoopoe
ˈhuːpuː
kokopu
kɒkɒpuː
napoo
nɑːˈpuː
Ogpu
ˈɒɡpuː
peekapoo
ˈpiːkəˌpuː
Pengpu
ˈpɛŋˈpuː
poo
puː
pooh
puː
pooh-pooh
ˈpuːˈpuː
pugh
puː
puh
puː
pupu
ˈpuːpuː
quipu
ˈkiːpuː
shampoo
ʃæmˈpuː
tapu
ˈtɑːpuː
Winnie-the-Pooh
ˌwɪnɪˌðəˈpuː
ZAPU
ˈzæpuː

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUIPPU

quintuplet
quintuplicate
quintuplication
quintuply
quinze
quip
quipped
quipper
quipping
quippish
quippy
quipster
quipu
quire
Quirinal
Quirinus
Quirites
quirk
quirkily
quirkiness

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUIPPU

Illampu

Synonyms and antonyms of quippu in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «quippu» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUIPPU

Find out the translation of quippu to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of quippu from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quippu» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

quippu
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

quippu
570 millions of speakers

English

quippu
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

quippu
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

quippu
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

quippu
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

quippu
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

quippu
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quippu
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Quippu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

quippu
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

quippu
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

quippu
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Quippu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

quippu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

quippu
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कोइप्पू
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

quippu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

quippu
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

quippu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

quippu
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

quippu
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

quippu
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

quippu
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

quippu
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

quippu
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quippu

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUIPPU»

The term «quippu» is used very little and occupies the 189.175 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «QUIPPU» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quippu

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUIPPU»

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Antigüedades Peruanas
Pero á pesar de su habilidad, necesitaban siempre cuando llegaba un quippu de una provincia lejana, un comentario verbal que les indicaba de que materia trataba este, ó en tributos, ó en matrículas de poblaciones etc. Para notar los ...
Mariano Eduardo de Rivero, 1851
2
Peruvian antiquities
But notwithstanding their skill, whenever a Quippu came from a distant province, it was necessary it should be accompanied by a verbal commentary, sufficient, at least-, -to isdtcate the subject matter of which it treated ; as, for instance, whether  ...
Mariano Eduardo de Ribero y Ustáriz, Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Lambert Lilly, 1854
3
The origin of civilization and the primitive condition of ...
THE QUIPPU. 31 find that Europeans can communicate with one another by means of a few black scratches on a piece of paper. Even the Peruvians had no better means of recording events than the Quippu or Quipu, which was a cord about ...
Sir John Lubbock, 1870
4
The origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of ...
44 THE QUIPPU As to the Bushmen, we have rather different ao counts. It has been stated by some that they have no idea of perspective, nor of how a curved surface can possibly be represented on a flat piece of paper ; while, on the contrary, ...
Sir John Lubbock, 1889
5
Illustrated Encyclopaedia of World History
PERUVIAN QUIPPU Unlike the Central Americans, the Peruvians had evolved no form of script; but used systcmsof knotted cords called ' quippu ' as a kind of memoria technica for messages and accounts British Museum AUSTERE ...
6
The Origin of Civilisation and the Primitive Condition of ...
36 THE QUIPPU'. accounts. It has been stated by some that they have no idea of perspective, nor of how a curved surface can possibly be represented on a flat piece of paper ; while, on the contrary, other travellers assert that they readily ...
John Lubbock, 1870
7
Ancient America: In Notes on American Archaeology
Each quippu was a book full of information for those who could read it. Among the amautas memory was educated to retain and transmit to posterity songs, historical narratives, and long historical poems. It is said, also, that tragedies and  ...
John Denison Baldwin, 1871
8
Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous ...
I, p. 486. Page 72. Some people have recently questioned whether the Peruvians knew symbolic painting other than the Quippu. A passage from the Origen de los Indios del Nuevo Mundo (Valencia, 1610), p. 91, leaves no doubt that they did.
Alexander von Humboldt, Vera M. Kutzinski, Ottmar Ette, 2013
9
The Complete Wordbook for Game Players: Winning Words for ...
Quippu. TORSKS MOORRW MORROW OORTUW OUTROW HOPRTY TROPHY IKKRSU KUKRIS ILNPSU LUPINS IMSSSU MISSUS IPPRTY TRIPPY KOSSSU KUSSOS MOORST MOTORS OOSTTY TOOTSY HOPSSY HYSSOP IKLLRS ...
Mike Baron, 2004
10
Encyclopaedia of the Guyanese Amerindians: including other ...
Quippus, quipu The Macushis of the North Rupununi used to use the quippu it to record important events. The term refers to a knotted string which serves as a calendar. Each knot represents one of the many days a member of the tribe will be ...
Lal Balkaran, 2007

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUIPPU»

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Forum neuer Musik 2015 "Die Antwort kommt am Ende des Stückes"
... er hat rausgekriegt, dass die Inka eine Schriftmethode hatte, die Quippu heißt. Und in China gibt es eine Schriftzeichenmethode mit Schnüren, die Kupui heißt. «Deutschlandfunk, Apr 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Quippu [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/quippu>. Apr 2024 ».
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