chipula

== Chichewa == === Etymology === Cognate with Tonga (Malawi) chipura. Potentially from -pula (“to remove from a fire”). This could describe the process of making a knife, referring to heating the metal before taking it off the fire. === Noun === chipula class 7 (plural zipula class 8) knife ==== Derived terms ==== chipulausiku (“galaxy”) === References === Steven Paas (2016), Oxford Chichewa-English/English - Chichewa Dictionary‎[1], Oxford University Press, page 82