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nipa|ˈniːpə, ˈnaɪpə|
Also 6 nypa, nyp-, niper, nipar, nipe, 9 nipah.
[a. Malay nīpah. Early Portuguese writers call the wine nipa and the tree nipeira, whence app. the forms niper, -ar, etc.]
†1. A kind of toddy obtained from the spadix of the nipa-palm (see 2). Also attrib. Obs.
1588Hickock tr. C. Frederick's Voy. 23 b, The greatest merchandise there is verzing, and nypa, which is an excellent Wine, which is had in the flowre of a tree called Nyper. Ibid., Niper Wine is a most excellent drink. 1591Barker in Hakl. Voy. (1599) II. ii. 107 We found in her..three hundred buts of Canarie wine, and Nipar wine, which is made of the palme trees. 1598W. Phillip tr. Linschoten's Voy. 101/2 This Sura, being distilled, is called Fula or Nipe, and is as excellent aqua vitæ as any is made in Dort. 1616R. Cocks Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 150 A jarr of nipa sent me for a present.
2. A kind of palm (Nipa fruticans), native to coastal regions in tropical Asia and Australia, having a creeping trunk with large feathery leaves, and bearing large round bunches of fruit; also, the foliage of this plant. Also attrib.
1779T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea i. 16 She was covered almost entirely with the leaves of a certain Palm tree, called Nipa, such as the natives cover houses with on the south-west coast of Sumatra, and in almost all Malay countries. 1783W. Marsden Hist. Sumatra 46 Those [people] of the lowest class have their fillet of the leaf of the neepah tree. 1817[see attap]. 1839Royle Bot. Himalayan Mount. 408 The Peruvian Phytelephas, with the Asiatic Palm-like Nipa. 1846Lindley Veget. Kingd. 132 The juice of Nipa, as it flows from the pounded spadices, furnishes one of the inferior kinds of Palm wine. 1866Treas. Bot. 790/2 The foliage, called Nipah, is used as thatch, and when burnt yields a supply of salt. 1882H. De Windt Equator 20 Its river banks lined with mangroves and nipa palms. 1926E. Blatter Palms Brit. India 553 Nipa is the vernacular name of the palm in the Philippines. 1954R. H. Holttum Plant Life in Malaya ii. 23 One of the most peculiar of all palms is Nipah, which grows on muddy river banks near the sea. 1962B. Harrisson Orang-Utan iv. 139, I had boarded ship at the mouth of the Rejang River where it had anchored alongside mud, mangrove and nipah-palms. 1966D. Forbes Heart of Malaya xiii. 161 The wooden beach bungalows..thatched with the nipa palm,..were all empty. 1969J. M. Gullick Malaysia iv. 160 Nipah is a type of palm whose fronds are plaited for use as thatch. 1973Telegraph (Brisbane) 2 Apr. 12/1 They tied the two women up in a nipa (thatched grass) hut. |