pa

pa

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English

Etymology 1

Clipping of papa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Homophones: pah (etymology 2), par (non-rhotic), paw (with cot-caught and father-bother mergers)

Noun

pa (plural pas)

  1. (colloquial) Father, papa.
  2. (colloquial) Grandpa, grandfather.
Usage notes
  • Often capitalized when used to refer to a specific person; see Pa.
Synonyms
  • (father): da (Irish) , dad, daddy, papa, pater
  • (grandfather): grandpa, grandpappy
Translations

See also

  • grandpa
  • ma

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

pa (plural pas)

  1. a fortified Maori settlement of pre-European and early European times
  2. an unfortified Maori village or settlement; a kainga
Alternative forms
  • pah

Anagrams

  • A&P, AP, Ap, ap, ap.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch.

Noun

pa (plural pa's)

  1. dad, father

Synonyms

  • pappa
  • vader

Antonyms

  • ma

Derived terms

  • oupa

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *apa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”). Cognate to Messapic [Term?] (apa, “from, out of, by”), Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “away, off”), Sanskrit अप (apá).

Preposition

pa (+accusative)

  1. without, minus
  2. not counting, even without counting

Antonyms

  • me

Derived terms

  • prapë
  • pas

References

Anuta

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fa, from Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pa

  1. four

Arritinngithigh

Noun

pa

  1. liver

References

  • Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 411

Asturian

Etymology

Compare Spanish pa, a contracted form of para.

Preposition

pa

  1. for

Usage notes

  • The preposition pa contracts to p' before a word beginning with a- or ha-: p'Asturies (for Asturias), p'haber (for to have)

Derived terms

  • p'
  • pal

Basque

Noun

pa inan

  1. kiss

Breton

Conjunction

pa

  1. when, if

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan pan, from Latin pānis, pānem, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze, feed”).

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈpa/
  • Rhymes: -a

Noun

pa m (plural pans)

  1. bread

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paː/

Verb

pā

  1. (transitive) To dye

References

  • Andrews, J. Richard (2003) Workbook for Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, revised edition edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, page 244
  • Karttunen, Frances (1983) An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl, Austin: University of Texas Press, page 182

Dakota

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa/

Noun

pa

  1. head

References

  • http://fpcctalkindian.nativeweb.org/ (Lesson Three)

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paː/
  • Rhymes: -aː

Noun

pa m (plural pa's, diminutive paatje n)

  1. pa, dad

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: pachi (from the diminutive)

Esperanto

Interjection

pa

  1. pah

Fala

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pera.

Preposition

pa

  1. to (indicates application of an adjective)
  2. for (directed at, intended to belong to or to be appropriate for)
  3. to, towards (indicates destination)

Galician

Alternative forms

  • pá, paa

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese paa, from Latin pāla (“shovel, spade”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpa]

Noun

pa f (plural pas)

  1. shovel; spade (tool for digging and moving material)
  2. windmill blade
  3. the end of a paddle or oar with the blade

References

  • “paa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “paa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “pa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “pa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “pa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Garo

Alternative forms

  • pagipa (formal)

Etymology

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

Noun

pa

  1. father

Guaraní

Numeral

pa

  1. ten

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French pas.

Adverb

pa

  1. not

Usage notes

  • Double negatives (e.g. pa ... janm or pa ... anyen) are grammatically correct in Haitian Creole.

Hiw

Verb

pa

  1. to finish, (be brought to an) end

Further reading

  • Alexandre François, Pragmatic demotion and clause dependency: On two atypical subordinating strategies in the Lo-Toga and Hiw (Torres, Vanuatu) (2010), in Clause Linking and Clause Hierarchy (edited by Isabelle Bril)

Japanese

Romanization

pa

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぱ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of パ

K'iche'

Preposition

pa

  1. in
  2. at
  3. on
  4. to
  5. into
  6. toward
  7. from
  8. during

References

  • Allen J. Christenson, Kʼiche-English dictionary

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese para.

Preposition

pa

  1. for
  2. to

Latvian

Preposition

pa (with accusative or dative)

  1. on
  2. along
  3. to
  4. in
  5. through
  6. during
  7. by
  8. over

Mandarin

Romanization

pa

  1. Nonstandard spelling of pā.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of pá.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of pà.

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

pa

  1. Alternative form of po

Min Nan

Mono (California)

Etymology

From Proto-Numic *pa from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa

Noun

pa

  1. water

Muong

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *paː; cognate with Vietnamese ba.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paː¹/

Numeral

pa

  1. three

Occitan

Adverb

pa

  1. not (indicates negation)

Old Prussian

Etymology

From the Proto-Indo-European root *upo- (“under, up”).

Preposition

pa

  1. under

Adverb

pa

  1. under

Palu'e

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

Numeral

pa

  1. four

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese para and Spanish para and Kabuverdianu pa.

Preposition

pa

  1. to
  2. for
  3. by

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa/

Interjection

pa

  1. (familiar) bye

Derived terms

  • (interjection) pa pa

Further reading

  • pa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Preposition

pa

  1. (nonstandard, colloquial) Contraction of para.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian pá.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pa]
  • Rhymes: -a

Interjection

pa

  1. bye

Synonyms

  • la revedere

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Common South Slavic; compare Slovene pa, Bulgarian па (pa). See also pa-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa/

Conjunction

pa (Cyrillic spelling па)

  1. (and) then
    Synonym: ȍndā
  2. (and) so, therefore
    Synonym: stȍgā
  3. (with da or màkar) even if, even though, although
  4. (with ȉpāk) (and, but) yet, still
  5. (with da + i) even if

Particle

pa (Cyrillic spelling па)

  1. so, so what
  2. (for emphasis) well, so
  3. (regional, for emphasis) even

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

Verb

-pá (infinitive kupá)

  1. to give

Skou

Noun

pa

  1. water

References

  • Donohue, Mark. Rópu we te máwo pílang te: Skou dictionary draft. s.l. 80pp. (2002).

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian pa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa/

Particle

pa

  1. well, so
    • 2010, Luigi Peca, “La guerre à Acquaviva”:

References

  • Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa/

Conjunction

pa

  1. and
  2. but
  3. so

Spanish

Alternative forms

  • pa', pa’

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpa/, [ˈpa]

Preposition

pa

  1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of para, for, to

See also

  • de pe a pa

References

  • Among the places this form is used is southern Arizona, per Anita Calneh Post, Southern Arizona Spanish phonology (1934), page 36: "The commonest loss of intervocalic r in southern Arizona is in para, which is always pa ..."

Sumerian

Romanization

pa

  1. Romanization of 𒉺 (pa)

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

Pronunciation

Verb

-pa (infinitive kupa)

  1. to give to (someone)

Usage notes

  • This verb must be used with an object concord:

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • Verbal derivations:
    • Applicative: -pea
    • Passive: -pewa
    • Reciprocal: -peana
  • Nominal derivations:
    • mpaji

Particle

pa

  1. Pa class inflected form of -a.

Tagalog

Adverb

pa

  1. yet
  2. still; eventually; in the future
  3. in addition
  4. in the past
  5. even

Noun

pa (feminine ma)

  1. (colloquial, familiar, childish) Contraction of papa
    Synonyms: papa, ama, tatay, itay, tay, tatang

Tshobdun

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak.

Noun

pa

  1. pig

Further reading

  • Jackson T. S. Sun, Typology of Generic-Person Making in Tshobdun Rgyalrong (2014)

Walloon

Noun

pa m (plural pas)

  1. father

Coordinate terms

  • (gender): mame

Welsh

Alternative forms

  • py

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷid, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷid (compare *kʷis); compare Latin quid, Old Irish cid, Modern Irish cad, Cornish py, pe.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paː/
  • Rhymes: -aː

Pronoun

pa

  1. (interrogative, archaic) what

Determiner

pa

  1. which

Derived terms

  • pa mor
  • pa un, p'un

Usage notes

  • The usage of pa as an interrogative has been rendered obsolete by the modern word beth, which derives from the phrase pa beth, meaning literally ‘what thing’.
  • pa as a determiner tends to be replaced by pwy in Southern Welsh.

Wutunhua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pʰɑ]

Noun

pa

  1. friend

References

  • Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun‎[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN

Yola

Preposition

pa

  1. Alternative form of apan

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pā/

Verb

pa

  1. (transitive) to kill
    1. (transitive) to murder
    2. (transitive) to execute
    3. (transitive) to switch off, to turn off
    4. (transitive) to extinguish
    5. (transitive) to stop, to terminate
  2. (transitive) to pain, to kill
    1. (transitive) to disturb
      (I am hungry)
    2. (transitive) to intoxicate
      (They are drunk)
  3. (transitive) to open, to smash open, to thresh
  4. (transitive) to hatch

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pā/

Verb

pa

  1. (transitive) to tell, to convey

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pā/

Verb

pa

  1. (transitive) to rub
  2. (transitive) to scorch, to drench, to beat usually in relation to weather

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pā/

Verb

pa

  1. to gain, to make

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pā/

Verb

pa

  1. to be in a state, defined by a following adverb

Derived terms

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pā/

Verb

pa

  1. to be tight

Derived terms

Etymology 7

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k͡pá/

Verb

pá

  1. to be bald
    (He is bald)

Derived terms

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pṓds (“foot”), cognates include Sanskrit पद् (pád), Latin pes (French pied), German Fuß, English foot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɔː/

Noun

pa ?

  1. (anatomy) leg, foot

Zou

Etymology 1

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *paa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pa. Cognates include Chinese 爸 (bà) and Tibetan པ་ཕ (pa pha).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa˧˥/

Noun

pá

  1. father
  2. grandfather

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to Etymology 1.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa˧/

Noun

pa

  1. cousin

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 60

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