Sherpa
pronunciation
How to pronounce Sherpa in British English:
UK [ˈʃɜ:pə]
How to pronounce Sherpa in American English:
US [ˈʃɜrpə]
-
- Noun:
- a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
Word Origin
- sherpa
- sherpa: [19] The Sherpas are a Tibetan people who live in northern Nepal. Their name for themselves (sharpa in Tibetan) means literally ‘dweller in an eastern country’. They act as mountain guides in the Himalayas, and since the exploits on Mount Everest of Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa, became well known in the 1950s, sherpa has become a generic term for a ‘Himalayan mountain guide’.
- Sherpa
- 1847, from Tibetan, literally "dweller in an eastern country."
Example
- 1. But sherpa argued that such sporadic clean-up efforts though well-meaning do not go far enough .
- 2. " I have seen three corpses lying there for years , " namgyal sherpa said .
- 3. The purpose of the audio link appeared to be to transmit quicker advice via the sherpa to silvio berlusconi , chairman of the talks .
- 4. Because we were here out of season , supper on the first night was spent with a sherpa family in a well-stocked kitchen , warmed by a wood-burning stove .
- 5. But sherpa argued that portable toilets would make it easier for the organisations overseeing clean-up at base camp to deal with the problem of human waste .