pa

Clipping of papa.

• IPA^(key): /pɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

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.

pa (plural pas)

1. a Maori fort

• pah

• A&P, AP, Ap, ap, ap.

From Dutch.

pa (plural pa's)

1. dad, father

• pappa
• vader

• ma

• oupa

From Proto-Albanian *apa, from Proto-Indo-European *h2(e)po- (“off, away”). Cognate to Ancient Greek ἄπα (ápa), ἀπά (apá, “away, off”).

pa (+accusative)

1. without
2. thus, then, so

• 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

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

1. kiss

pa

1. when, if

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

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

pa m (plural pans)

1. bread

• 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/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aː

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

1. pa, dad

pa

1. pah

From Old Portuguese pera.

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”, […]

pa

1. ten

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

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. a Maori fortified camp

pa

1. Alternative form of po

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/

• Audio

  (file)

pa

1. (familiar) bye

• pa pa

• pa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

pa

1. (Africa, rural areas of Brazil) 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 (= 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

   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. (for emphasis) well, so

   Pa dobro! ― Well, all right!

   Pa što je s tobom? ― Well, what's wrong with you?

   Pa i ne baš ― Well, not exactly

   Pa što onda? ― So what? (literally, “So what then?”)

2. (regional, for emphasis) even

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

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).

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’

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of para

• 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 ..."

From Proto-Bantu *-páa.

-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.

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

• Nominal derivations:
  • mpaji

pa

1. Pa class inflected form of -a.

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *pʷak.

pa

1. pig

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

pa m (plural pas)

1. father

• (gender): mame

• py

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

• IPA^(key): /paː/

pa

1. (interrogative, archaic) what

pa

1. which

• 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /pɔː/

pa ?

1. (anatomy) leg, foot