papa

papa

1. Alternative letter-case form of Papa of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

From French papa, from Middle French papa, from Old French papa, from Latin papa, probably originally a reduplicated imitation of a child's early efforts at vocalising Latin pater (“father”). Compare Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

• (UK) enPR: pə-päʹ, IPA^(key): /pəˈpɑː/
• (US) enPR: päʹ-pə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.pə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː, -ɑːpə
• Homophones: poppa (father–bother merger), popper (in non-rhotic accents with the father–bother merger)

papa (plural papas)

1. (often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
2. (informal) A pet name for one's grandfather.
3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
   • 1892, Fergus Hume, The Island of Fantasy: A Romance:

     they are all of the Orthodox Church, and obey devoutly the precepts of Papa Athanasius

4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Papa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

• papa's girl

• da
• dad
• daddy

• APAP

papa

1. grandchild
2. grandparent

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

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• IPA^(key): [pàpá]

papa

1. father

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• IPA^(key): [pápá]

papa

1. kindness

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

• Hyphenation: pa‧pa
• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/

papa (feminine mama)

1. A father; a (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A term of address to one's father, father-in-law or husband.

   Synonyms: ama, tatay

Probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

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

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papa m (plural papes)

1. pope

• papal
• papat

• “papa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. A father; a (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A term of address to one's father, father-in-law or husband.

• (a father): ama, amahan, tatay

Borrowed from English, French, or Michif papa.

papa

1. father

• (with regard to gender): mama, naha

papa

1. the sister of one's father; paternal aunt

papa

1. duck

• pappa (less common)

Borrowed from French papa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑ.paː/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa m (plural papa's, diminutive papaatje n)

1. Dad (term of address for one’s father, especially used by young children).

   Synonyms: pa, pap

• papadag

• Berbice Creole Dutch: papa
• Negerhollands: popa, pupa
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: popa, pupa (dated)
• Skepi Creole Dutch: papai

• vader

papa

1. duck

• IPA^(key): /pæpɑː/

papa

1. dad
2. daddy
3. father

From Middle French papa, child-speak, syllable-repetitive; compare maman.

• IPA^(key): /pa.pa/

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papa m (plural papas)

1. (childish) papa, a child's father; also as form of address: dad, daddy

   Papa, on va où ?

   Daddy, where are we going?

   Au revoir, papa, je t'appelle demain.

   Bye, Dad. I'll call you tomorrow.

2. pops, any man of roughly fatherly age and appearance

• barbe-à-papa
• fils à papa

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

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

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa̝/

papa m (plural papas)

1. pope

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese papa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pappa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa̝/

papa f (plural papas)

1. (usually in the plural) pap; porridge

   Synonym: papuxa

• papar

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

papa

1. Romanization of 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰

papa

1. flat surface, layer
2. foundation
3. storey (of a building), floor
4. (rare) table, shelf
5. face (of a clock)

papa

1. (stative, mathematics) two-dimensional

papa

1. (stative) native-born

papa

1. (stative) set close together
2. (stative) in unison

papa

1. board, lumber

papa

1. (stative) wooden

papa

1. wafer

papa

1. list, directory

   Synonyms: helu, helu papa

papa

1. class (in school)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒpɒ]

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

papa (plural papák)

1. dad

   Coordinate term: mama

2. (dialectal) granddad, grandfather

• papa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Borrowed from English papa, French papa, German Papa, Italian papà, Russian па́па (pápa), Spanish papá.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/

papa (plural papai)

1. papa, dad, daddy, pop

   Synonyms: patreto, patro

   Coordinate terms: mama, matro

From Sanskrit पाप (pāpa, “bad, evil, low”).

• IPA^(key): /pa.pa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. poor condition, misery
2. (Hinduism) sin

• miskin
• sengsara

Devoiced bapa.

• IPA^(key): /pa.pa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. (colloquial) father

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

Borrowed from Russian папа (papa).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpɑ/, [ˈpɑpɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpɑ/, [ˈpɑb̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. dad, papa
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva:

     Na, papa, kala.

     Here, daddy, a fish.

• mama (“mum, mama”)

Borrowed from English pepper.

papa (dual papak, plural papat)

1. pepper

   Papaliġñaqmiuq imiġaurriugaq.

   Pepper can also be added to a stew.

From Latin papa, from Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pa/

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Hyphenation: pà‧pa

papa m (plural papi)

1. pope

   Synonym: pontefice

• papale

• → Turkish: papa

papa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぱぱ
2. Rōmaji transcription of パパ

• IPA^(key): [pa.ˈpa]

papa

1. father

• Laércio Nora Bacelar, Gramática da língua Kanoê (2004).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.pa/, [ˈpäːpä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pa/, [ˈpäːpä]

A nursery word imitative of the movement of the infant's lips during eating. Compare English pap, German Papp, Hungarian papi. Also see the derivative pappō.

• pappa

pāpa f (genitive pāpae); first declension

1. (childish) yum yum, num-num, food (especially pap)

   Cum cibum ac pōtiōnem "buās" ac "pāpās" vocent, mātrem "mammam", patrem "tatam".

   Since children call food "papa" and drink “bua”, mother "mamma" and father "tata".

   (Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, 81 M, 2-4)

First-declension noun.

• pappō

• bua

From early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests & bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests & bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

pāpa m (genitive pāpae, feminine pāpissa); first declension

1. a dad, daddy, father
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a bishop

   Synonyms: episcopus, pontifex

3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a pope (the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)

   • The traditional exclamation in Rome after a papal election:

     "Habemus papam!" ― "We have a [new] pope!"

   Synonym: pontifex maximus

4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a patriarch (in primatial sees, notably Coptic Alexandria).

First-declension noun.

• pāpālis
• pāpātus
• pāpō

• papa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• papa 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)
• papa in Ramminger, Johann (accessed July 16, 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

papa m (4th declension, irregular gender, dative singular)

1. (often childish) dad, daddy
2. (archaic) pope

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/

From child language.

papa m

1. dad, daddy

Borrowed from German Pappe (“pap; paperboard”).

papa f (diminutive papka)

1. pap (soft food)
2. paperboard

Devoiced bapa.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /papə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /papa/
• Rhymes: -apə, -pə, -ə

papa

1. father (male parent)

• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba)
• ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
• abah (aba, bah)
• rama

From Proto-Polynesian *papa, from Proto-Oceanic *papan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan (compare with Malay papan).

• IPA^(key): /pa.pa/, [pɐ.pɐ]

papa

1. board, plank
2. chart
3. slab
4. floor

• “papa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
• Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 313-4

From French papa.

• IPA^(key): /papa/

papa

1. father

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papa m (plural papas)

1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) grandfather, grandad, grandpa

papa m (definite singular papaen, indefinite plural papaer or papaar, definite plural papaene or papaane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pappa

From Ecclesiastical Latin pāpa, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.pɑ/

pāpa m

1. pope

• Middle English: pope, pape, popa, papa, papæ, pwope
  • English: pope
    • Jamaican Creole: puop
    • Tok Pisin: pop
    • → Hindi: पोप (pop)
    • → Urdu: پوپ‎ (pop)
  • Scots: pape, paipe, paip

From Dutch papa.

papa

1. father

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/, [ˈpɐpɐ]

papa

1. dog

   Papangku nyinara kuka ngalkuṉu. ― The dog sat eating meat.

   Synonym: tjiṯutja

• Paul A. Eckert (2007) Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara Picture Dictionary‎, IAD Press, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pa/

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

Borrowed from German Pappe.

papa f

1. tarpaper

Borrowed from French papa.

papa m pers

1. (archaic) dad

   Synonyms: ojciec, tata

Borrowed from Italian papa.

papa m pers

1. (colloquial) pope

   Synonym: papież

See etymology 2.

Uncertain. Possibly a deverbal from papać. Alternative theories suggest a derivation from theorized *plapa, from dialectal German Plappe (“mouth”), from plappern.

papa f

1. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) face

See etymology 1.

Possibly borrowed from Latin pappa.

papa f

1. Augmentative of papka.

See etymology 1.

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

• Rhymes: -apɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

From Old Portuguese papa, probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

papa m (plural papas)

1. (Christianity) pope

• → Swahili: papa

From Latin pappa or pāpa (“infant's cry for food”).

papa f (plural papas)

1. pap (food in the form of a soft paste)
2. (figurative) something with a pasty consistency
3. (informal, childish) any type of food

• não ter papas na língua

papa

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

• papar

papa

1. potato

From French pape.

pāpá class 1a (plural bāpāpá class 2a)

1. pope

papa

1. burster

From Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from Byzantine Greek παπάς (papás, “priest”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

• IPA^(key): /pâːpa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

pȃpa m (Cyrillic spelling па̑па)

1. pope (of the Catholic Church)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpa.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

Borrowed from Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

papa m (plural papas)

1. pope (an honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)

• antipapa
• papista
• más papista que el papa

• papado
• papal

• → Tagalog: Papa

Borrowed from Quechua papa.

Papas

Common names for potato in the Spanish-speaking world

papa f (plural papas)

1. (Latin America, Canary Islands, Andalusia) potato

   Synonym: (Spain) patata

From Latin pappa (“food; used regarding children”)[1][2].

papa f (plural papas)

1. (childish, familiar) very bland soup, or more broadly, food in general
2. (figuratively) nonsense, trifle, rubbish

• echar papas
• paparrucha

• papar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

papa

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

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

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papa (n class, plural papa)

1. shark

Borrowed from Portuguese papa.

papa (ma class, plural mapapa)

1. pope

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-papa (infinitive kupapa)

1. to tremble, quiver
2. (of the heart) to beat