pa

pa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Punjabi.

Clipping of papa.

• IPA^(key): /pɑː/

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

pa (plural pas)

1. (colloquial) Father, papa.
2. (colloquial) Grandpa, grandfather.

• Often capitalized when used to refer to a specific person; see Pa.

Hey, Pa, I'd like you to meet my friend Jamie.

• (father): da (Irish) , dad, daddy, papa, pater
• (grandfather): grandpa, grandpappy

• grandpa
• ma

Borrowed from Maori pā.

pa (plural pas)

1. (New Zealand, now historical) A fortified Maori settlement, especially of pre-European times. [from 19th c.]
   • 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins 2021, p. 68:

     A pa or Māori defence fortification appears at a height on the hill above the bay.

2. (New Zealand) Any Maori village or settlement; a kainga. [from 19th c.]

• pah

• A&P, AP, Ap, ap, ap.

From Dutch.

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pa (plural pa's)

1. dad, father

• pappa
• vader

• ma

• oupa

From Proto-Albanian *apa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”). Cognate to Messapic [Term?] (apa, “from, out of, by”),[1] Ancient Greek ἀπό (apó, “away, off”), Sanskrit अप (apá).

pa (+accusative)

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

[2]

• me

• prapë
• pas

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.

pa

1. four

pa

1. liver

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

Compare Spanish pa, a contracted form of para.

pa

1. for

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

• p'
• pal

pa inan

1. kiss

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa

1. small

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

pa

1. when, if

From Old Catalan pa (attested at least once as pan), from Latin pānis, possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to graze, feed”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpa/

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• Rhymes: -a

pa m (plural pans)

1. bread

• “pa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /paː¹/

pa

1. three

• IPA^(key): /paː/

pā

1. (transitive) To dye

• 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

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa

1. head

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

• IPA^(key): /paː/

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• Rhymes: -aː

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

1. pa, dad

• → Papiamentu: pachi (from the diminutive)

pa

1. pah

From Old Portuguese pera.

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa

1. to (indicates application of an adjective)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 3: Radós:

     A radón mais grandi pa defendela é que é nossa LENGUA MATERNA, a “primeira lengua que un indivíduu aprendi de maneira ínnconscienti duranti a sua infancia” i en ela han aprindiu a idel as primeiras palabras […]

     The greatest reason to defend it is that it is our NATIVE LANGUAGE, the “first language that an individual learns in an unconscious manner during his infancy” and in it learned how to say his first words […]

2. for (directed at, intended to belong to or to be appropriate for)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 4: ¿Guerras, moas?:

     Encontramus opiniós pa tos os gustus.

     We found opinions for every taste.

3. to, towards (indicates destination)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme IX, Chapter 4: ¿Fala transerrana?:

     I nos, inda hoxii, con autonomía i tó siguimus idendu: “Vo pa Castilla”, […]

     And to this day we, with autonomy and everything, keep on saying: “I’ll go to Castille”, […]

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu [Fala Dictionary]‎, CIDLeS, →ISBN, page 215

• pá, paa

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpa]

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
4. (anatomy, zootomy) incisor

• “paa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “paa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “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.

• pagipa (formal)

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

pa

1. father

pa

1. ten

• kpá (Benin)

• IPA^(key): /k͡pá/

pá (Nigeria)

1. towards

Cognates include Saxwe Gbe kpà, Adja kpa, Fon kpà

• kpà (Benin)

• IPA^(key): /k͡pà/

pà (Nigeria)

1. to cut, specifically hair

Cognates include Saxwe Gbe kpà, Adja kpa, Fon kpà

• kpà (Benin)

• IPA^(key): /k͡pà/

pà (Nigeria)

1. to praise

From French pas.

pa

1. not

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

pa

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

• 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)

pa

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

pa

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

• Allen J. Christenson, Kʼiche-English dictionary

From Portuguese para.

pa

1. for
2. to

pa (with accusative or dative)

1. on
2. along

   iet pa ceļu ― to walk along the road

3. to
4. in
5. through
6. during

   pa naktīm ― during night

7. by

   pa pastu ― by post

8. over

   pa radio ― over the radio

pa

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

• 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.

pa

1. Alternative form of po

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

pa

1. water

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

• IPA^(key): /paː¹/

pa

1. three

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

• IPA^(key): /paː¹/

pa

1. three

pa

1. not (indicates negation)

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

pa

1. under

pa

1. under

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

pa

1. four

From Portuguese para and Spanish para and Kabuverdianu pa.

pa

1. to
2. for
3. by

• IPA^(key): /pa/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: pa

pa

1. (familiar) bye

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

pa

1. (nonstandard, colloquial) Contraction of para.

Borrowed from Hungarian pá.

• IPA^(key): [pa]
• Rhymes: -a

pa

1. bye

• la revedere

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

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa (Cyrillic spelling па)

1. (and) then

   Synonym: ȍndā

   prvo ću skočiti ja, pa ti ― I'll jump first, (and) then you

   učenje pa odmor pa zabava ― learning, then rest, then fun

2. (and) so, therefore

   Synonym: stȍgā

   Potrošio sam sav novac, pa sam se morao vratiti kući. ― I've spent all of my money, so I had to go back home.

3. (with da or màkar) even if, even though, although
4. (with ȉpāk) (and, but) yet, still

   bogat je, pa ipak usamljen ― he's rich, but still lonely

5. (with da + i) even if

pa (Cyrillic spelling па)

1. so, so what

   Pa? ― So what?

2. (for emphasis) well, so

   Pa dobro! ― All right, then!

   Pa što je s tobom? ― What's with you?

   Pa i ne baš ― Well, not exactly

   Pa što onda? ― So what?

3. (regional, for emphasis) even

   Pa i moja baba već zna da to nije istina! ― Even my grandma knows that that is not true!

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

-pá (infinitive kupá)

1. to give

pa

1. water

   Móenòeng pe tue e tue pa.

   There are crocodiles in the water.

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

From Serbo-Croatian pa.

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa

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

     Alora pa, ka biša gvera, ka pa je rivala kurta nasa ova gvera, mi, tuna žene aš ljuda, te ljuda veča… ka bihu veča zdrave – nò? mahu sa po hranit.

     Well then, during the war, when this war came close to us, we, all the women and men, the men (who were) more… who were healthier – you know? had to hide themselves.

• 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).

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa

1. and

   Jaz pa ti. ― Me and you.

2. but

   Je dober, ne pa najbolši. ― He is good but not the best.

3. so

   Zaspal je, pa je zamudil šolo. ― He overslept, so he was late for school.

pa m (plural pas)

1. (Latin America) Clipping of papá: dad; pop; papa

pa

1. Alternative form of pa'

• de pe a pa

• 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 ..."

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

pa

1. Romanization of 𒉺 (pa)

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

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-pa (infinitive kupa)

1. to give to (someone)

• This verb must be used with an object concord:

• Nimewakupa kitabu. ― I have given them a book.
• Nijawapa kitabu. ― I have not (yet) given them a book.