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5-letter words (6 found)

ALAPS,PAALS,PALAS,PALSA,PLAAS,SALPA,

4-letter words (9 found)

AALS,ALAP,ALAS,ALPS,LAPS,PAAL,PALS,SALP,SLAP,

3-letter words (13 found)

AAL,AAS,ALA,ALP,ALS,ASP,LAP,LAS,PAL,PAS,SAL,SAP,SPA,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AL,AS,LA,PA,

You can make 33 words from salpa according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of salpa

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Definitions and meaning of salpa

salpa

Etymology

From Latin salpa, from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē, “a species of fish”).

Noun

salpa (plural salpas or salpae)

  1. salp

Anagrams

  • Palas, alaps, lapas, palas, palsa, plaas

Catalan

Verb

salpa

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

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑlpɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝lpɑ̝]
  • Rhymes: -ɑlpɑ
  • Syllabification(key): sal‧pa

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *salpa (compare Karelian salpa, Veps saub), probably borrowed from Proto-Germanic *stalpą (whence dialectal Swedish stalpe (“pole”)).

Noun

salpa

  1. bolt (sliding pin or bar in a lock)
  2. bar (horizontal pole used to lock a door or a gate)
  3. hasp, clasp (metal strap fastened by a padlock or a pin)
  4. (electronics, computing) latch, flip-flop (bistable, electronic switching circuit)
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • “salpa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Latin salpa (“stockfish”).

Noun

salpa

  1. salp (fish)
Declension

Anagrams

  • palsa

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsal.pa/
  • Rhymes: -alpa
  • Hyphenation: sàl‧pa

Etymology 1

Uncertain.

Noun

salpa f (plural salpe)

  1. a kind of imitation leather used to bind books

Etymology 2

From Latin salpa, from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē, “a species of fish”).

Noun

salpa f (plural salpe)

  1. Salema porgy (Sarpa salpa)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from translingual Salpa.

Noun

salpa f (plural salpe)

  1. any fish of the Sarpa taxonomic genus

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

salpa

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

Anagrams

  • spala

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σάλπη (sálpē).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.pa/, [ˈs̠äɫ̪pä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsal.pa/, [ˈsälpä]

Noun

salpa f (genitive salpae); first declension

  1. A kind of stockfish

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

  • “salpa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • salpa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: sal‧pa

Noun

salpa f (plural salpas)

  1. salp (free-swimming tunicate of the family Salpidae)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin salpa.

Noun

salpa f (plural salpas)

  1. salp
  2. salema

Further reading

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

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