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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sherpa is a noun meaning "a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers". It carries one recorded sense.
a member of the Himalayan people living in Nepal and Tibet who are famous for their skill as mountaineers
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sherpa come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.