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Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاپاره (papara), from Proto-Slavic *popara (“scald”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈpaɾa/
- Hyphenation: πα‧πά‧ρα
Noun
παπάρα • (papára) f (plural παπάρες)
- dunking bread, dunked bread, sop (bread which is for or has been put into liquid food such as oil, salad, etc)
Βουτώ την παπάρα σε λάδι.- Voutó tin papára se ládi.
- I dunk bread into oil.
- (colloquial, figuratively, in the plural παπάρες (papáres)) crap, rubbish, nonsense (anything meaningless)
Ο γέρος όλο κάθεται και λέει παπάρες.- O géros ólo káthetai kai léei papáres.
- The old man just sits and talks nonsense all the time.
Declension
Declension of παπάρα
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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παπάρα (papára)
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παπάρες (papáres)
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| genitive
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παπάρας (papáras)
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| accusative
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παπάρα (papára)
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παπάρες (papáres)
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| vocative
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παπάρα (papára)
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παπάρες (papáres)
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Synonyms
- παπάρας m (papáras, “idiot, moron”)
- παπάρι n (papári, “bollock, ball”) (vulgar)
- παπαριά f (papariá, “nonsense, lies”)
Noun
παπάρα • (papára) m
- genitive singular of παπάρας (papáras)
- accusative singular of παπάρας (papáras)
- vocative singular of παπάρας (papáras)