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p

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English Online Dictionary. What means p‎? What does p mean?

Translingual

Letter

p (upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

Symbol

(IPA) a voiceless bilabial plosive.
(superscript ⟨ᵖ⟩) [p]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [p]-release (e.g. ⟨kᵖ⟩ for [k͡p]), [p]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [p].
(physics) pressure
(music) piano (play softly)
(chemistry) power of; the negative logarithm of a concentration, as in pH or pOH
(physics) proton

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Letter styles

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /piː/
- Rhymes: -iː
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P, plural ps or p's)

The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Number

p (lower case, upper case P)

The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Abbreviations

Alternative forms

(page, per): p.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /piː/

Preposition

Abbreviation of post, meaning after
Abbreviation of per.
(stenoscript) Abbreviation of up.

Translations

Noun

Alternative form of p.; Abbreviation of page (plural pp)
(UK) Abbreviation of penny; pence.
(physics) proton
(video compression) Abbreviation of progressive scan.
Abbreviation of piss (“urine”).

Translations

Verb

(knitting) Abbreviation of purl.

Adverb

p (not comparable)

(Internet) Abbreviation of pretty (as an intensifier)
I'm doing p good, how are you?
- 1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgandelphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet [1]:
  There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole^[sic] think SU27 is p bad!).
(chiefly US, stenoscript) Alternative spelling of p.m. (“post meridiem”) or pm

Derived terms

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

The twenty-third letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pe/, [pe̞]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The seventeenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Demotic

Noun

⁠⁠⁠ f

Alternative form of p.t (“sky”)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -eː
(letter name): IPA^(key): /peː/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛ/
- Conventional anglicization: pe

Noun

Inflection

Noun

plinth

Inflection

Proper noun

m./f. topo.

Pe, a city in Lower Egypt, where the Pharaohs were crowned.

References

Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN

Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /po/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/
Homophone (letter name): po

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twentieth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called po and written in the Latin script.

Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpeː/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pʰ/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The nineteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Finnish

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on Swedish, German and Latin. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and p for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

Abbreviation of penni. (Finnish penny, no longer used)

French

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /pe/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The fifteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Fula

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐍀

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): [ˈp]
(letter name): IPA^(key): [ˈpeː]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called pé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpɛrt͡s]

Noun

p (plural p-ek)

Abbreviation of perc (“minute[s]”).
Coordinate terms: ó, mp

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA^(key): /pʰjɛː/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The twentieth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Ido

Pronunciation

(context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p/
(letter name) IPA^(key): /pe/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Italian

Letter

p f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case P)

The fourteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

Kashubian

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Latin

Letter

The letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

References

p 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)
“p”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [p]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called pē and written in the Latin script.

Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Malay

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p/
IPA^(key): /b/ (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)
With very few exceptions, this letter occurs only in borrowings.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twentieth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Norwegian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA^(key): /peː/
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

The sixteenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The nineteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Polish

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p/, or IPA^(key): /b/ if voiced

Letter

p (upper case P, lower case)

The twenty-second letter of the Polish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Portuguese

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romani

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

(International Standard) The twentieth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
(Pan-Vlax) The twenty-first letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called pe or pî and written in the Latin script.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

P (uppercase)

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (Cyrillic spelling п)

The 22nd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by o and followed by r.

Silesian

Etymology

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twenty-fourth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The twenty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (phoneme) /p/
IPA^(key): (letter name) /ˈpe/ [ˈpe]
- Rhymes: -e

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The seventeenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish p. Each pronunciation has a different source:

Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English p.
Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish p.
Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜉ (pa).

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: p
(letter name, Filipino alphabet): IPA^(key): /pi/, [pɪ]
(letter name, Abecedario): IPA^(key): /ˈpe/, [ˈpɛ]
(letter name, Abakada alphabet): IPA^(key): /pa/, [pɐ]
(phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/, [p]
Rhymes: -i, -e, -a

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P, Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒ)

The eighteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Filipino alphabet), called pi and written in the Latin script.
(historical) The nineteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abecedario), called pe and written in the Latin script.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P, Baybayin spelling ᜉ)

The fourteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (Abakada alphabet), called pa and written in the Latin script.

Turkish

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twentieth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The twentieth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA^(key): /k͡p/
(letter name): IPA^(key): /k͡pí/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The eighteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called pí and written in the Latin script.

Zulu

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Translingual

Letter

Pronunciation

Symbol

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English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Number

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Preposition

Translations

Noun

Translations

Verb

Adverb

Derived terms

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Letter

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Basque

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Demotic

Noun

Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun

Inflection

Noun

Inflection

Proper noun

References

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Estonian

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Faroese

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Finnish

Etymology

Pronunciation

Letter

See also

Noun

French

Pronunciation

Letter

Fula

Pronunciation

Letter

Usage notes

See also

Gothic

Romanization

Hungarian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Letter

Declension

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