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Definitions and meaning of papa

papa

Translingual

Noun

papa

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Papa of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

Etymology

From French papa, from Middle French papa, from Old French papa, from Latin papa, probably originally a reduplicated imitation of a child's early efforts at vocalising Latin pater (“father”). Compare Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: pə-päʹ, IPA(key): /pəˈpɑː/
  • (US) enPR: päʹ-pə, IPA(key): /ˈpɑː.pə/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː, -ɑːpə
  • Homophones: poppa (father–bother merger), popper (in non-rhotic accents with the father–bother merger)

Noun

papa (plural papas)

  1. (often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  2. (informal) A pet name for one's grandfather.
  3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Papa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

Derived terms

  • come to papa
  • papa's girl

Related terms

Translations

See also

  • da
  • dad
  • daddy

Anagrams

  • APAP

'Are'are

Noun

papa

  1. grandchild
  2. grandparent

References

  • Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Akan

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pàpá]

Noun

papa

  1. father

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pápá]

Noun

papa

  1. kindness

References

  • 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa
  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/, [ˈpa.pa]

Noun

papa (feminine mama)

  1. A father; a (generally human) male who begets a child.
  2. A term of address to one's father, father-in-law or husband.
    Synonyms: ama, tatay

Catalan

Etymology 1

Probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.pə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈpa.pa]

Noun

papa m (plural papes)

  1. pope
Related terms
  • papal
  • papat
Further reading
  • “papa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Etymology 2

Verb

papa

  1. inflection of papar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa

  1. a father; a (generally human) male who begets a child
  2. a term of address to one's father, father-in-law or husband

Synonyms

  • (a father): ama, amahan, tatay

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Borrowed from English, French, or Michif papa.

Noun

papa

  1. father

Coordinate terms

  • (with regard to gender): mama, naha

Dieri

Noun

papa

  1. the sister of one's father; paternal aunt

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

papa

  1. duck

Dutch

Alternative forms

  • pappa (less common)

Etymology

Borrowed from French papa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑ.paː/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa m (plural papa's, diminutive papaatje n)

  1. Dad (term of address for one’s father, especially used by young children).
    Synonyms: pa, pap

Derived terms

  • papadag

Descendants

  • Berbice Creole Dutch: papa
  • Negerhollands: popa, pupa
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: popa, pupa (dated)
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: papai

See also

  • vader

Eastern Bontoc

Noun

papa

  1. duck

Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæpɑː/

Noun

papa

  1. dad
  2. daddy
  3. father

French

Etymology

From Middle French papa, child-speak, syllable-repetitive; compare maman.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.pa/

Noun

papa m (plural papas)

  1. (childish) papa, a child's father; also as form of address: dad, daddy
  2. pops, any man of roughly fatherly age and appearance

Derived terms

References

  • Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

  • “papa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  • “papa” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
  • “papa” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.

Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa̝/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

Noun

papa m (plural papas)

  1. pope
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Galician-Portuguese papa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pappa.

Noun

papa f (plural papas)

  1. (usually in the plural) pap; porridge
    Synonym: papuxa
Derived terms
Related terms
  • papar

Etymology 3

Verb

papa

  1. inflection of papar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

  • “papa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “papa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “papas” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “papa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “papas” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Gothic

Romanization

papa

  1. Romanization of 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French papa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /papa/

Noun

papa

  1. father, dad, daddy

Interjection

papa

  1. Used to express amazement.

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *papa, from Proto-Oceanic *papan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan (compare with Malay papan or Maori papa).

Noun

papa

  1. flat surface, layer
  2. foundation
  3. storey (of a building), floor
  4. (rare) table, shelf
  5. face (of a clock)

Verb

papa

  1. (stative, mathematics) two-dimensional

Etymology 2

Verb

papa

  1. (stative) native-born

Etymology 3

Verb

papa

  1. (stative) set close together
  2. (stative) in unison

Etymology 4

Noun

papa

  1. board, lumber

Verb

papa

  1. (stative) wooden

Etymology 5

Noun

papa

  1. wafer

Etymology 6

Noun

papa

  1. list, directory
    Synonyms: helu, helu papa

Etymology 7

Noun

papa

  1. class (in school)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɒpɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa
  • Rhymes: -pɒ

Noun

papa (plural papák)

  1. dad
    Coordinate term: mama
  2. (dialectal) granddad, grandfather

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • papa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from English papa, French papa, German Papa, Italian papà, Russian па́па (pápa), Spanish papá.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/

Noun

papa (plural papai)

  1. papa, dad, daddy, pop
    Synonyms: patreto, patro
    Coordinate terms: mama, matro

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit पाप (pāpa, “bad, evil, low”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.pa/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa

  1. poor condition, misery
  2. (Hinduism) sin
Synonyms
  • miskin
  • sengsara
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Devoiced bapa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.pa/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa

  1. (colloquial) father

Further reading

  • “papa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Ingrian

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian папа (papa).

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈpɑpɑ/, [ˈpɑpɑ]
  • (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈpɑpɑ/, [ˈpɑb̥ɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa

  1. dad, papa

Declension

Coordinate terms

  • mama (“mum, mama”)

Inupiaq

Etymology

Borrowed from English pepper.

Noun

papa (dual papak, plural papat)

  1. pepper

Italian

Etymology

From Latin papa, from Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.pa/
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Hyphenation: pà‧pa

Noun

papa m (plural papi)

  1. pope
    Synonym: pontefice

Derived terms

  • papale

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Turkish: papa

Japanese

Romanization

papa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぱぱ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of パパ

Kanoé

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pa.ˈpa]

Noun

papa

  1. father

References

  • Laércio Nora Bacelar, Gramática da língua Kanoê (2004).

Kari'na

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *papa, a nursery word in origin; compare Apalaí papa, Trió papa, Akawaio papa, Macushi papa, Pemon papa, Ye'kwana jaaja, Yao (South America) pape, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi papa.

Pronunciation

  • (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA(key): [paːpa]
  • (East Suriname) IPA(key): [paʔpa]

Noun

papa (plural papante)

  1. first-person possessed form of jumy (“father, paternal uncle”)

References

  • Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎[2], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 336
  • Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “papa”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 359; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎[3], Paris, 1956, page 350

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpaː.pa/, [ˈpäːpä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpa.pa/, [ˈpäːpä]

Etymology 1

A nursery word imitative of the movement of the infant's lips during eating. Compare English pap, German Papp, Hungarian papi. Also see the derivative pappō.

Alternative forms

  • pappa

Noun

pāpa f (genitive pāpae); first declension

  1. (childish) yum yum, num-num, food (especially pap)
    (Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, 81 M, 2-4)
Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • pappō
See also
  • bua

Etymology 2

From early Byzantine Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests & bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

Noun

pāpa m (genitive pāpae, feminine pāpissa); first declension

  1. a dad, daddy, father
  2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a bishop
    Synonyms: episcopus, pontifex
  3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a pope (the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)
    The traditional exclamation in Rome after a papal election:
    "Habemus papam!" ― "We have a [new] pope!"
    Synonym: pontifex maximus
  4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a patriarch (in primatial sees, notably Coptic Alexandria).
Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms
  • pāpālis
  • pāpātus
  • pāpō
Descendants

References

  • papa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • papa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • papa in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[4], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Latvian

Noun

papa m (4th declension, irregular gender, dative singular)

  1. (often childish) dad, daddy
  2. (archaic) pope

Declension

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/

Etymology 1

From child language.

Noun

papa m

  1. dad, daddy
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Pappe (“pap; paperboard”).

Noun

papa f (diminutive papka)

  1. pap (soft food)
  2. paperboard
Declension

Malay

Etymology

Devoiced bapa.

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /papə/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /papa/
  • Rhymes: -apə, -pə, -ə

Noun

papa

  1. father (male parent)

Synonyms

  • bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba)
  • ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
  • abah (aba, bah)
  • rama

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *papa, from Proto-Oceanic *papan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan (compare with Malay papan or Hawaiian papa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.pa/, [pɐ.pɐ]

Noun

papa

  1. board, plank
  2. chart
  3. slab
  4. floor

References

  • “papa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
  • Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎[5], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 313-4

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French papa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /papa/

Noun

papa

  1. father

Norman

Pronunciation

Noun

papa m (plural papas)

  1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) grandfather, grandad, grandpa

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

papa m (definite singular papaen, indefinite plural papaer or papaar, definite plural papaene or papaane)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pappa

Old English

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin pāpa, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑː.pɑ/

Noun

pāpa m

  1. pope

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: pope, pape, popa, papa, papæ, pwope
    • English: pope
      • Jamaican Creole: puop
      • Tok Pisin: pop
      • → Hindi: पोप (pop)
      • → Urdu: پوپ (pop)
    • Scots: pape, paipe, paip

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch papa.

Noun

papa

  1. father

Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/, [ˈpɐpɐ]

Noun

papa

  1. dog
    Synonym: tjiṯutja
    Papangku nyinara kuka ngalkuṉu. ― The dog sat eating meat.

References

  • Paul A. Eckert (2007) Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara Picture Dictionary‎[6], IAD Press, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.pa/
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Syllabification: pa‧pa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Pappe.

Noun

papa f

  1. tarpaper
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French papa.

Noun

papa m pers

  1. (archaic) dad
    Synonyms: ojciec, tata
Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Italian papa.

Noun

papa m pers

  1. (colloquial) pope
    Synonym: papież
Declension

See etymology 2.

Etymology 4

Uncertain. Possibly a deverbal from papać. Alternative theories suggest a derivation from theorized *plapa, from dialectal German Plappe (“mouth”), from plappern.

Noun

papa f

  1. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) face
Declension

See etymology 1.

Etymology 5

Possibly borrowed from Latin pappa.

Noun

papa f

  1. Augmentative of papka
Declension

See etymology 1.

Further reading

  • papa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • papa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -apɐ
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese papa, probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

Noun

papa m (plural papas)

  1. (Christianity) pope
Descendants
  • → Swahili: papa

Etymology 2

From Latin pappa or pāpa (“infant's cry for food”).

Noun

papa f (plural papas)

  1. pap (food in the form of a soft paste)
  2. (figurative) something with a pasty consistency
  3. (informal, childish) any type of food
Derived terms
  • não ter papas na língua

Etymology 3

Verb

papa

  1. inflection of papar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
Related terms
  • papar

Quechua

Noun

papa

  1. potato

Declension

Descendants

  • → Spanish: papa

Rapa Nui

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *papa, from Proto-Oceanic *papan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan (compare with Malay papan or Hawaiian papa).

Noun

papa

  1. flat stone; shelf in the bottom of the sea; rocky sea bottom
  2. wooden plank

References

  • “papa”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From French pape.

Noun

pāpá class 1a (plural bāpāpá class 2a)

  1. pope

Samoan

Noun

papa

  1. burster

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from Byzantine Greek πάπας (pápas, “priest”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pâːpa/
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

pȃpa m (Cyrillic spelling па̑па)

  1. pope (of the Catholic Church)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpa.pa]
  • Rhymes: -apa
  • Syllabification: pa‧pa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

Noun

papa m (plural papas)

  1. pope (an honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • → Tagalog: Papa

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Quechua papa.

Noun

papa f (plural papas)

  1. (Latin America, Canary Islands, Andalusia) potato
    Synonym: (Spain) patata
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Latin pappa (“food; used regarding children”).

Noun

papa f (plural papas)

  1. (childish, familiar) very bland soup, or more broadly, food in general
  2. (figuratively) nonsense, trifle, rubbish
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

papa

  1. inflection of papar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “papa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

References

Swahili

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

papa (n class, plural papa)

  1. shark

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese papa.

Noun

papa (ma class, plural mapapa)

  1. pope

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-papa (infinitive kupapa)

  1. to tremble, quiver
  2. (of the heart) to beat
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • Verbal derivations:
    • Applicative: -papia
  • Nominal derivations:
    • kipapa
    • papo

Etymology 4

See hapa.

Adverb

papa

  1. Only used in papa hapa

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • /paˈpa/ from Spanish papá, adapted from French papa
  • /papa/ from Hokkien 爸爸 (pâ-pâ)
  • /ˈpapa/ from English papa / poppa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈpa/, [pɐˈpa] (Spanish Pronunciation)
  • IPA(key): /papa/, [pa.pa] (Hokkien Pronunciation)

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/, [ˈpa.pɐ] (English Pronunciation)
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa or papá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (informal, familiar, childish)

  1. dad; daddy
    Synonyms: pa, ama, tatay, itay, tay, tatang
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈpaʔ/, [pɐˈpaʔ]

  • IPA(key): /paˈpa/, [pɐˈpa] (obsolete)
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Adjective

papâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

  1. low and flat

Noun

papâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

  1. gentle slope
    Antonym: tibong
  2. (architecture) house with low roof and little airflow
    Synonyms: alipapa, dampa

Derived terms

See also

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Spanish papa, from Latin pappa (“food; used regarding children”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapaʔ/, [ˈpa.pɐʔ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (colloquial)

  1. food for kids who are only just beginning to speak

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/, [ˈpa.pɐ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

  1. standard size of fabric width
    Synonyms: luwang, antso
  2. (obsolete) sewing two pieces of sheet widthwise
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapaʔ/, [ˈpa.pɐʔ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (zoology)

  1. bee (Apis mellifera) that collects honey
    Synonym: bubuyog

Etymology 6

Possibly from pa-apa (“cone-shaped”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapa/, [ˈpa.pɐ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

  1. (zoology) telescope snail (Telescopium telescopium)
    Synonyms: bangungon, kuhol, suso
  2. a cone-shaped shell
    Synonym: kabibe
Usage notes
  • Also called susong papa.

Etymology 7

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpapaʔ/, [ˈpa.pɐʔ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (obsolete)

  1. tearing the taro leaf to the skin
Derived terms

Etymology 8

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈpaʔ/, [pɐˈpaʔ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (obsolete)

  1. name of the Baybayin letter ᜉ (pa), corresponding to "pa"

See also

Further reading

  • “papa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎[7] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
  • San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎[8], La Noble Villa de Pila
    • page 58: “Añadir) Papa (pp) dos pieças coſiendo las alo ãcho”
    • page 196: “Coſer) Papa (pp) dos piernas de liẽço ancho cõ ancho a diferençia del paſado [q̃ es] punta con punta”
    • page 458: “P) Papa (pc) letra de; Abeçe de los tagalos .|. papayaon .|. ᜉ. eſta letra les ſirue de . f . ꝑa lo Eſpañol, porqu: no la tienen, ſumulat ca nang papa ſa ſulat tavo, haz la letra. P . en letra de indio.”
    • page 483: “Pierna) Papa (pp) de lienço o ſabana”

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English papa.

Noun

papa

  1. father

Derived terms

  • papamama

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpa.pa]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *papa (“flat surface”). Cognates include Hawaiian papa and Maori papa.

Noun

papa

  1. rock
  2. rocky area

Verb

papa

  1. (stative) to be flat
  2. (stative) to be hard

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *papa (“fish”). Cognates include Maori pā and Samoan papa.

Noun

papa

  1. a school of caranxes

Verb

papa

  1. (intransitive) to group together into a school

Etymology 3

Noun

papa

  1. bra

Etymology 4

Of imitative origin.

Noun

papa

  1. daddy, dad

References

  • R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎[9], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 261

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian papa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑˈpɑ/, [pʰɑˈpɑ]
  • Hyphenation: pa‧pa

Noun

papa (definite accusative papayı, plural papalar)

  1. pope

Declension

West Makian

Etymology 1

Possibly related to Ternate foheka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.ˈpa/

Noun

papa

  1. woman
  2. wife

Etymology 2

Possibly the same origin as the first.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa.pa/

Noun

papa

  1. female
    oma da papa ― a girl (literally, “a female child”)
Alternative forms
  • pa

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[10], Pacific linguistics (etymology 1 as papá)

Wolof

Noun

papa

  1. father

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pá.k͡pá/

Noun

pápá

  1. field

Derived terms

  • pápákọ̀ òfuurufú

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