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4-letter words (1 found)

PIPA,

3-letter words (4 found)

APP,PAP,PIA,PIP,

2-letter words (3 found)

AI,PA,PI,

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pipa ippa ppia ppia ippa pipa piap ipap paip apip iapp aipp ppai ppai papi appi papi appi ipap piap iapp aipp paip apip

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Definitions and meaning of pipa

pipa

Alternative forms

  • p'i-p'a (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos.

Noun

pipa (plural pipas)

  1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

Translations

Anagrams

  • IPPA, PAPI

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pipa f (plural pipes)

  1. pipe, tobacco pipe
  2. pacifier
    Synonym: xumet
  3. Ganoderma lucidum, a red-coloured mushroom
  4. sunflower seed
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “pipa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “pipa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “pipa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Etymology 2

Verb

pipa

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpipɑ/, [ˈpipɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ipɑ
  • Syllabification(key): pi‧pa

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

Noun

pipa

  1. pipa (a type of Chinese lute)
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

pipa (dialectal)

  1. Alternative form of pipo
Declension

Anagrams

  • appi

French

Pronunciation

Noun

pipa m (plural pipas)

  1. pipa (instrument)

Further reading

  • “pipa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Etymology

14th century. From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pipo (“I pip”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpipɐ]

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. pipe, butt
  2. pipe, flute
    Synonym: pito
  3. tobacco pipe
    Synonym: cachimba

Derived terms

  • pipote

References

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

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pipa, from French pipe.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pipa (plural pipák)

  1. pipe (for smoking)
  2. tick, checkmark (✓)
    Coordinate term: (×) iksz

Declension

Derived terms

  • vízipipa

Descendants

  • → Romanian: pipă

Adjective

pipa (comparative pipább, superlative legpipább)

  1. (colloquial, predicatively) angry, furious
    Nagyon pipa vagyok rád. ― I'm very angry with you.

Declension

References

Further reading

  • pipa 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

Indonesian

Etymology

  • From Malay pipa (“barrel, cask, chimney”), from Portuguese pipa (“cask”), from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipo (“I pip”).
  • The sense “pipe” is a semantic loan from Dutch pijp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpipa]
  • Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa (first-person possessive pipaku, second-person possessive pipamu, third-person possessive pipanya)

  1. pipe,
    1. a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.
      Synonyms: pembuluh, buluh-buluh
    2. a hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
  2. chimney
    Synonym: cerobong

Alternative forms

  • paip (“pipe”) (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.pa/
  • Rhymes: -ipa
  • Hyphenation: pì‧pa

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f (plural pipe)

  1. pipe
  2. (vulgar, slang) a wank
Descendants
  • → Czech: pípa
  • → German: Pipe
  • → Greek: πίπα (pípa)
  • → Hungarian: pipa
    • → Romanian: pipă
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: пипа
    Latin script: pipa
  • → Slovak: pipa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pipa

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

Anagrams

  • appi, papi

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian pipa and/or Italian pipa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiː.pa/

Noun

pipa f (plural pipi)

  1. pipe (smoking implement)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • pipen

Noun

pipa m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pipa f (definite singular pipa, indefinite plural piper or pipor, definite plural pipene or pipone)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pipe
  2. definite singular of pipe

Verb

pipa (present tense pip, past tense peip, supine pipe, past participle pipen, present participle pipande, imperative pip)

  1. Alternative form of pipe

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpi.pa/
  • Rhymes: -ipa
  • Syllabification: pi‧pa

Etymology 1

Probably from French pipe or Italian pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa.

Noun

pipa f (diminutive pipka)

  1. pipette (small glass tube used for transferring liquid)
    Synonym: pipeta
  2. (colloquial, vulgar) minge
    Synonym: cipa
  3. (derogatory, vulgar) pussy, sissy (timid, unassertive or cowardly person)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

Noun

pipa f

  1. pipa (Chinese lute)
Declension

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Alternative forms

  • pipo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pipa (“pipe”), from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip, to pipe”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. pipe, a wooden barrel, cask, or vat, especially for wine
  2. (historical, measure) pipe, a traditional unit of liquid volume equal to 400–550 liters depending on the part of Portugal
  3. (measure) truckload, the volume of a tanker
  4. (Brazil) kite, a flying toy on a string
    soltar pipa ― to fly a kite

Synonyms

  • (cask): barril
  • (kite): pandorga (Brazil), papagaio de papel (Portugal)

Coordinate terms

  • (unit of liquid volume): almude (1⁄25 pipa), barril (1⁄8 or 1⁄6 pipa), tonel (2 pipas)

Derived terms

  • caminhão-pipa

Descendants

  • → Gujarati: પીપ (pīp)
  • → Swahili: pipa

Romanian

Etymology

From pipă +‎ -a.

Verb

a pipa (third-person singular present pipează, past participle pipat) 1st conj.

  1. to smoke a pipe

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pîpa/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏па)

  1. faucet, tap
    Synonyms: slàvina, špȋna, rubìnet

Declension

References

  • “pipa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pìːpa/

Noun

pípa f

  1. tap, faucet (device to dispense liquid)

Inflection

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpipa/ [ˈpi.pa]
  • Rhymes: -ipa
  • Syllabification: pi‧pa

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. pipe (device used for smoking)
    Synonym: cachimba
  2. barrel
    Synonyms: cuba, barril
  3. (colloquial) gun; shooter

Noun

pipa m or f by sense (plural pipas)

  1. (colloquial) roadie
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Basque: pipa

Adverb

pipa

  1. (colloquial) very good
    Synonym: estupendamente
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From pepita.

Noun

pipa m (plural pipas)

  1. (colloquial) a genius, a smart person

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. (Spain) sunflower seed
    Synonym: pepita
  2. (Central America) green coconut
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pipa

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

Further reading

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

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pipa.

Pronunciation

Noun

pipa (ma class, plural mapipa)

  1. barrel, cask

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse pípa.

Pronunciation

Noun

pipa c

  1. a pipe (e.g. smoking tool, organ pipe etc)
  2. the barrel of a gun
  3. a small wind instrument; flute
  4. the hollow tube of a bone
  5. a type of Chinese lute; pipa
  6. (slang) singing voice
  7. (historical) a pipe (an old unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 470 liters or 124 US gallons)

Declension

Related terms

  • benpipa (a smoking pipe made of bone)
  • glasblåsarpipa (a glasblower pipe)
  • kritpipa (a smoking pipe made of clay)
  • orgelpipa (organ pipe)
  • piprensare (smoking pipe cleaner wire)
  • piptobak (pipe tobacco)
  • säckpipa (a bagpipe)
  • tobakspipa (a smoking tool)

Descendants

  • → Finnish: piippu
    • → Ingrian: piippu

Verb

pipa (present piper, preterite pep, supine pipit, imperative pip)

  1. to yield a high sound or tone; squeak, peep, beep

Conjugation

See also

  • pip
  • pipare
  • pipljud

Further reading

  • pipa in Svensk ordbok.

Venetian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pipo (“I pip”).

Noun

pipa f

  1. pipe

Etymology 2

Compare Spanish pepita (“nugget”), Portuguese pevide (“flat seed”).

Noun

pipa f

  1. acorn

Etymology 3

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

Noun

pipa f

  1. circumflex (diacritic)
  2. háček (diacritic)

References

  • “pipa₁”, “pipa₂”, and “pipa₃” listed on page 216 of Lodovico Pizzati’s Venetian–English English–Venetian: When in Venice Do as the Venetians (2007, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɪpa/

Verb

pipa

  1. inflection of pipo:
    1. first-person singular future
    2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org