Meaning of sirpis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. sickle (hand tool with a semicircular blade used for cutting grass, cereals, etc.)
   declension-2, masculine
2. crescent (an object or arrangement, especially the moon, in the form of a sickle, with tapering extremities), a moonsickle
   declension-2, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“sirpis un āmurs”

hammer and sickle (Communist symbol)

“no rīta noskrien septiņas verstis līdz kunga druvai, ar sirpi nopļauj pūrvietu rudzu”

in the morning she ran seven leagues to get to (her) lord's corn fields, (and) with a sickle she mowed the rye

“mēness sirpis”

moon crescent (lit. moon’s sickle)

“katrā mēnesī ir tikai viena pati reize, kad vakarstundā rietumu debesīs parādās jaunā mēness tievais un smailais sirpis”

every month there is only one time when, at night, in the western sky, the thin, pointed crescent (sickle) of the new moon appears

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