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tiponi

tiponi noun: a Hopi badge of authority.

Noun

tiponi (plural tiponis)

  1. A Hopi badge of authority.
    • Of all objects on a Hopi altar perhaps the most important and constant is the badge of office or palladium, known as the tiponi, of the religious society which celebrates the rites about it. The Antelope altar has for the first seven days two tiponis, the Snake and Antelope.1900, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Tusayan Migration Traditions, page 972

Forms of tiponi

pluraltiponis

Questions about tiponi

What does tiponi mean?
Tiponi means a Hopi badge of authority.
What part of speech is tiponi?
Tiponi is a noun.
What is the plural of tiponi?
The plural of tiponi is tiponis.

Words near tiponi in the dictionary

  1. Tipo
  2. Tipo-Tipo
  3. tipoff
  4. tipoffs
  5. Tipolo
  6. tiponi
  7. tiponis
  8. Tipp
  9. Tipp City
  10. Tipp-Ex
  11. Tipp-Exed

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