papa

Borrowed from French papa, probably originally imitative of a child's early efforts at vocalization, 17th c.

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

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• Homophone: poppa

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)

4. The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

• da
• dad
• daddy

• APAP

• IPA^(key): [pàpá]

papa

1. father

• IPA^(key): [pápá]

papa

1. kindness

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

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/

papa m (plural papes)

1. pope

• papal

• “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 regards to gender): mama, naha

papa

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

papa

1. duck

Borrowed from French papa.

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• Rhymes: -aː

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

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

• IPA^(key): /pæpɑː/

papa

1. dad
2. daddy
3. father

Child-speak, syllabe-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, où va-t-on ?

   Daddy, where are we going?

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 le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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

• papado
• papal

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

• papas de avea
• papuxa

• papar

• “papa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “papa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒpɒ]

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa (plural papák)

1. dad

• nagypapa

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 (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.pa], /ˈpapa/
• Hyphenation: pà‧pa

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papa m (plural papi)

1. pope

• pontefice

• papale

• papabile
• papale
• papalino

• IPA^(key): [pa.ˈpa]

papa

1. father

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpaː.pa/

Onomatopoeic. Related to pappō.

• pappa

pāpa f (genitive pāpae); first declension

1. An infant's cry for food.

   Cum cibum ac potionem "buas" ac "papas" vocent, matrem "mammam", patrem "tatam".

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

First declension.

• 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); first declension

1. father
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) bishop
3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) pope (the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)
   • The traditional exclamation in Rome after a papal election:

     "Habemus papam!"

     "We have a [new] pope!"

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

First declension.

• (bishop): episcopus m, pontifex m
• (pope): pontifex maximus m

• pāpālis

• → Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰 (papa)
• → Italian: papa
  • → Turkish: papa
• → Old French: pape
  • Middle French: pappe
    • French: pape
      • Haitian Creole: pap
      • → Persian: پاپ‎ (pâp)
  • Norman: pape
  • Picard: pape
  • Walloon: påpe
  • ⇒ Old French: papes (nominative singular)
    • → Old Dutch: [Term?]
      • → Middle Dutch: paus, paues, pauwes
        • Dutch: paus
          • Afrikaans: pous
          • → Malay: paus
            • Indonesian: paus
        • Limburgish: paus
        • West Flemish: paus
        • Zealandic: paus
    • → Old Frisian: paus, pāves, pāgus
    • → Old High German: bābes
      • Middle High German: bābes, bābest
        • Alemannic German: Papscht
        • Bavarian: Popst

          Cimbrian: baabost

        • German: Papst
        • Luxembourgish: Poopst
        • Rhine Franconian:

          Pennsylvania German: Baapscht

        • Yiddish: פּויפּס‎ (poyps), פּויפּסט‎ (poypst)
      • → Czech: papež
        • → Polish: papież
        • → Silesian: papjyż
      • → Slovak: pápež
      • → Slovene: papež
    • → Old Saxon: pābos, pāvos
      • Middle Low German: pāwest, pāves
        • Dutch Low Saxon: paus, paauws
        • → Estonian: paavst
        • → Latvian: pāvests
        • → Võro: paast, paavst
      • → Old Norse: páfi
        • Icelandic: páfi
        • Faroese: pávi
        • Norwegian: pave
        • Old Danish: pauæ
          • Danish: pave
        • Old Swedish: pavi, pave
          • Swedish: påve
          • → Finnish: paavi
• → Old English: pāpa
  • 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
• → Old Irish: pápa
  • Irish: pápa
  • Scottish Gaelic: pàpa
• → Old Portuguese: papa
  • Galician: papa
  • Portuguese: papa
    • → Swahili: papa
• → Old Spanish: [Term?]
  • Spanish: papa
    • → Tagalog: papa

• 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, 1883–1887)
• papa in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 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

papa

1. rump

• IPA^(key): /papa/

From French papa.

papa

1. father

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papa m (plural papas)

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

• grand-papa (“great-grandfather”)
• Papa Noué (“Father Christmas”)

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

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.

• (dog): tjiṯutja

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pa/

papa f

1. tar paper

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pɐ/
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa
• Rhymes: -apa

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 m (plural papas)

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

papa

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of papar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of papar

• não ter papas na língua

• papar

papa

1. potato

papa

1. burster

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

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

pȃpa m (Cyrillic spelling па̑па)

1. pope (of the Catholic Church)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/

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

papa m (plural papas)

1. pope

• papado m
• papal

• → Tagalog: papa

• cardenal m
• obispo m
• arzobispo m
• pontífice m

Borrowed from Quechua papa.

Papas

papa f (plural papas)

1. (Latin America, Canary Islands) potato

• patata (Spain)

• papas a la francesa
• papas arrugadas
• papas fritas

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

• paparrucha

• papar

papa (n class, plural papa)

1. shark

Borrowed from Portuguese papa.

papa (ma class, plural mapapa)

1. pope

-papa (infinitive kupapa)

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

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -papia

• Nominal derivations:
  • kipapa
  • papo

See hapa.

papa

1. Only used in papa hapa

From English papa.

papa

1. father

• papamama

Borrowed from Italian papa.

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

papa (definite accusative papayı, plural papalar)

1. pope

papa

1. father