sapo
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsapo]
- Audio:
(file) - Rhymes: -apo
- Hyphenation: sa‧po
Indonesian
Etymology
Unknown, possibly from Japanese しゃぶしゃぶ (shabushabu); onomatopoeic, resembling the sound emitted when the ingredients are stirred in the pot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈsapo]
- Hyphenation: sa‧po
Noun
sapo (first-person possessive sapoku, second-person possessive sapomu, third-person possessive saponya)
- hot pot, (pot and meal)
Further reading
- “sapo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Etymology
From Frankish *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, trickle, strain”). Cognate with Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease”). More at soap.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsaː.poː/, [ˈs̠äːpoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈsa.po/, [ˈsäːpo]
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sāpō | sāpōnēs |
Genitive | sāpōnis | sāpōnum |
Dative | sāpōnī | sāpōnibus |
Accusative | sāpōnem | sāpōnēs |
Ablative | sāpōne | sāpōnibus |
Vocative | sāpō | sāpōnēs |
Derived terms
- sāpōnātum
Descendants
- Balkan-Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Dalmatian: sapaun
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Old Leonese:
- Old Portuguese: sabon, sabõ
- Old Spanish: xabon
- Ladino:
- Spanish: jabón, xabon
- → Aymara: jawuna
- → Basque: xaboi
- → Bikol Central: sabon
- → Binukid: sabun
- → Cebuano: sabon
- → Chamicuro: shawona
- → Southern Ohlone: hawun
- → Cuyunon: sabon
- → Guaraní: havõ
- → Hiligaynon: habon
- → Ilocano: sabon
- → Isthmus Zapotec: xabú
- → Maguindanao: sabun
- → Malay: sabun (see there for further descendants)
- → Mayo: saábom
- → Mecayapan Nahuatl: xapo̱n
- → Mezquital Otomi: xabo
- → O'odham: ṣawoñ
- → Papiamentu: habon
- → Tagalog: sabon
- → Waray-Waray: sabon
- → Japanese: シャボン (shabon)
- → Okinawan: サフン (safun)
- →? Min Nan: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: sabone, saboni, saoni
- Sassarese: saboni
- Borrowings:
- → Albanian: sapun
- → Ancient Greek: σᾱ́πων (sā́pōn)
- → Classical Syriac: ܨܦܘܢܐ
- → Arabic: صَابُون (ṣābūn) (see there for further descendants)
- → Greek: σάπων (sápon)
- → Georgian: საპონი (saṗoni)
- → Middle Persian: *sābōn
- Persian: صابون (sâbun)
- Tajik: собун (sobun)
- → Old Armenian: սապոն (sapon)
- Middle Armenian: սապոն (sapon)
- ⇒ Koine Greek: σαπώνιον (sapṓnion) (diminutive)
- → Classical Syriac: ܨܦܘܢܐ
- → Proto-Celtic:
- → Macedonian: сапун (sapun)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
See also
References
- “sapo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sapo 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)
- sapo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “sapo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sapo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese

Etymology
From Old Portuguese sapo, of unknown origin. Possibly from Iberian.
Cognate with Galician sapo, Mirandese sapo, Asturian sapu, Spanish sapo, Aragonese zapo and Basque apo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsa.pu/
- Rhymes: -apu
- Hyphenation: sa‧po
Derived terms
- engolir sapo
- sapinho
- sapo-aranzeiro
- sapo-boi
- sapo-cachorro
- sapo-concho
- sapo-conqueiro
- sapo-cururu
- sapo-de-unha-preta
- sapo-do-mar
- sapo-e-cobra
- sapo-ferreiro
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsapo/ [ˈsa.po]
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -apo
- Syllabification: sa‧po
Noun
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sapo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Tagalog
Etymology 1
Compare sapupo.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧po
- IPA(key): /saˈpo/, [sɐˈpo]
- Rhymes: -o
Adjective
sapó
Derived terms
- isapo
- may-sapo
- pagsapo
- pasapo
- sapo-sapo
- sapuhin
Noun
sapó
- act of supporting or carrying by the palm of the hands
- temporary undersupport (to prevent from collapsing)
Etymology 2
Compare pupo.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧po
- IPA(key): /saˈpoʔ/, [sɐˈpoʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
Noun
sapô
See also
- sakwa
- tinampayakan
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧po
- IPA(key): /saˈpo/, [sɐˈpo]
- Rhymes: -o
Noun
sapó
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: sa‧po
- IPA(key): /ˈsapo/, [ˈsa.po]
- Rhymes: -apo
Noun
sapo
References
- “sapo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018
- “sapo” in Pinoy Dictionary, Cyberspace.ph, 2010-2023.
- “sapo” in Tagalog-English Dictionary, TAGALOG LANG, 2007.
- Fr. Juan José de Noceda; Fr. Pedro de Sanlucar (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves (in Spanish & Tagalog), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
- Fr. Domingo de los Santos (1835), Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte. (in Spanish & Tagalog), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot