alpafi

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) to shoot at, fire on (with a firearm, etc.)
 * 2) * Sergio Pokrovskij (translator), La Majstro kaj Margarita (The Master and Margarita) by Mikhail Bulgakov, Part 2, Chapter 27,
 * Tie, bedaŭrinde same senrezulte, la beston alpafis la homoj gardantaj la kamentubojn, kaj la kato eklipsiĝis en la malalta suno inundanta la urbon.
 * There [the animal] was fired on—unfortunately, equally without effect—by the guards stationed at the chimneys, and [the cat] disappeared in the light of the setting sun which was flooding the city at that hour. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)
 * There [the animal] was fired on—unfortunately, equally without effect—by the guards stationed at the chimneys, and [the cat] disappeared in the light of the setting sun which was flooding the city at that hour. (Mirra Ginsburg translation, Grove, 1995)