aapa

From Urdu آپا (āpā) / Bengali আপা (apa).

• IPA^(key): /ɑːpɑː/

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aapa (plural aapas)

1. (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, rare) A sister that is older than oneself; also used as a term of familiarity or respect toward a woman that is older.
   • 2006, Asha Ranawa, Woman's Triumph‎, page 46:

     I am close to bhai and his wife Shaffo, whom I call aapa, who herself is a well-read person and a true soul-mate to her husband.

From a Sami language (compare Northern Sami áhpi (“swamp, high seas”)), from Old Norse haf.

In use at least since the second half of the 19th century, for instance attested in Elias Lönnrot: Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja ("Finnish-Swedish Dictionary", 1866-1880).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑːpɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑːpɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): aa‧pa

aapa

1. A type of open swamp.

• aapasuo

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2013). Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja. Helsinki: Sanoma Pro OY. →ISBN.

• “aapa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

Proto-Eskimo *ata-ata (“father”)

aapa

1. father

• taata

• National Bilingual Materials Development Center, Alaska (1979). Kaniqsisautit Uqayusragnikun Kobuk Inupiat Junior Dictionary
• Seiler, W. (2012). Iñupiatun Eskimo Dictionary, SIL International

• apa

Borrowed from English half.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːpa/,

aapa

1. part

• "aapa" in Cliff Goddard (1992) Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary, 2nd edition