tenchalpipi. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

tenchalpipi.

Principal English Translation:

to shave one's beard (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

tēnchalpihpī

IPAspelling:

teːntʃɑlpihpiː

Frances Karttunen:

TĒNCHALPIHPĪ vrefl to shave one's beard / rasura la barba (T) [(3)Tp.158]. PIHPĪ literally means 'to pluck' rather than 'to shave.' See TĒNCHAL-LI, PIHPĪ.

TĒNCHALPIHPĪHUA nonact. TĒNCHALPIHPĪ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 224.