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pipina.

Headword: 
pipina.
Principal English Translation: 

to suck on something (see Karttunen); to eat or suck on sweet cane (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
pipiːnɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

pipina. nitla. (pret. onitlapipin.) comer y chupar cañas dulces.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PIPĪNA vt to suck on something /comer y chupar cañas (M) [(1)Zp.39].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 196.