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English
Etymology
Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (HP, “home page”), from English home + page.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/
Proper noun
HP
- (India) Abbreviation of Himachal Pradesh, a state of India
- The Hewlett-Packard Company
- Harry Potter
2009 July 16, Steve Boxer, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, in Guardian, Technology news & features, page 2:Overall, this is the first HP game to even get near to living up to the quality of JK Rowling's books and the accompanying films.
Noun
HP (countable and uncountable, plural HPs or HP)
- Initialism of hire purchase.
- 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205:
- Everything is practical, sensible, reasonably priced and available on HP.
- Initialism of horsepower.
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) Hit points; health points.
- Initialism of higher power.
- Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
- Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
- Abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide.
- (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
- (Japan) Initialism of home page.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- (hydrogen peroxide): LHP (“liquid hydrogen peroxide”), HPGP (“hydrogen peroxide gas plasma”), HPV (“hydrogen peroxide vapor”), VHP (“vaporous hydrogen peroxide”), AHP (“alkaline hydrogen peroxide”)
Translations
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English HP.
Noun
HP
- (gaming) hit point(s)
French
Etymology
Initialism of haut potentiel.
Pronunciation
Noun
HP m (plural HPs)
- intellectually gifted person
- Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué
German
Noun
HP
- (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Hochparterre.
Indonesian
Etymology
Borrowed from English HP.
Noun
HP (first-person possessive HPku, second-person possessive HPmu, third-person possessive HPnya)
- handphone
- (video games, mostly role-playing games) hit points; health points
Japanese
Noun
HP • (hōmupēji)
- Initialism of ホームページ (“home page”).
Polish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
HP n (indeclinable)
- The Hewlett-Packard Company
- Mam notebooka z HP. ― I've got an HP notebook.
Further reading
- HP in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- HP in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Spanish
Noun
HP m (uncountable)
- Acronym of hijoputa.
- Synonym: HDP