arpa

arpa f (plural arpes)

1. harp (musical instrument)

• IPA^(key): /ɑrˈpɑ/
• Hyphenation: ar‧pa

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From Proto-Turkic *arpa.

arpa (definite accusative arpanı, plural arpalar)

1. barley

arpa (definite accusative arpanı, plural arpalar)

1. (historical) a unit of weight equal to 37,5 grams

• “arpa” in Obastan.com.

Borrowed from Spanish arpa (“harp”).

• Hyphenation: ar‧pa
• IPA^(key): /ˈʔaɾpa/

árpa

1. harp (musical instrument)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

arpa f (plural arpes)

1. harp

• arpista

Inherited from Latin harpē (“bird of prey, falcon”), from Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon”).

arpa f (plural arpes)

1. claw of an animal
2. (in the plural) pitchfork

• arpejar
• arpella, arpelles
• arpó

• “arpa” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “arpa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “arpa” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “arpa” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Spanish arpa.

arpa

1. harp (music instrument)

arpa f (plural arpe)

1. harp

• “arpa” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

From Proto-Turkic *arpa (“barley”).

arpa (accusative , plural )

1. barley

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎, Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN

From Proto-Finnic *arpa, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *arbaz (whence Old Norse arfr, Swedish arv).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑrpɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑrpɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ar‧pa

arpa

1. lot (anything, as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper, used in determining a question by chance)
2. lottery ticket

   Synonym: arpalippu

• arpajaiset
• arpakuutio
• arpoa
• arvonta

• “arpa”, 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

• para, rapa

Borrowed from Spanish arpa. Cognate of Tagalog alpa.

árpa

1. harp, lyre

From Proto-Finnic *arpa. Cognates include Finnish arpa and Estonian arp.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈɑrpɑ/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈɑrpɑ/,
• (Hevaha) IPA^(key): /ˈɑrpɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑrp, -ɑrpɑ
• Hyphenation: ar‧pa

arpa

1. lot (used for determining a question by chance)
2. allotment (piece of land given by the village council by means of a lottery)

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 17
• Arvo Laanest (1997) Isuri keele Hevaha murde sõnastik, Eesti Keele Instituut, page 21

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.pa/
• Rhymes: -arpa
• Hyphenation: àr‧pa

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

arpa f (plural arpe)

1. harp (musical instrument)

• arpeggiare
• arpicordo

• arpeggiamento
• arpeggiatore
• arpeggio

From Latin harpē, from Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “sickle”).

• arpe

arpa f (plural arpe)

1. a curved sword

• apar, apra, para, para-, parà, rapa

From Proto-Turkic *arpa (“barley”).

• (Xarrâbî) IPA^(key):

arpa (definite accusative arpañ, plural arpalar)

1. barley

• arpa suvı (“beer”)
• quş arpası (“oat”)

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾ.pa/

arpa f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ארפה, plural arpas)

1. harp

   אי טי לוארי קון לה ארפה ,דייו מי דייו.

   Y te loare kon la arpa, Dio, mi Dio.

   And I shall praise you upon the harp, God, my God.

arpa f

1. harp

Borrowed from Sicilian arpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.pa/

• Audio (Gozo):

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arpa f

1. osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

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arpa f (plural arpas)

1. harp
2. claw

• (claw): arpar

• IPA^(key): /ˈar.pa/
• Hyphenation: àr‧pa

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

arpa f (plural arpi)

1. harp

From Latin harpē (“bird of prey, falcon”), from Ancient Greek ἅρπη (hárpē, “bird of prey, falcon”).

arpa f (plural arpi)

1. raptor, bird of prey

• harpa (rare)

From Late Latin harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾpa/

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• Rhymes: -aɾpa
• Syllabification: ar‧pa

arpa f (plural arpas)

1. harp (musical instrument)

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el arpa, un arpa

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

• “arpa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• alpa

Borrowed from Spanish arpa (“harp”), from Late Latin harpa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔaɾpa/ , /ʔaɾˈpa/
• Rhymes: -aɾpa, -a
• Syllabification: ar‧pa

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arpa or arpá (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜇ᜔ᜉ) (music)

1. harp

• para, arap

arpa

1. Latin spelling of арпа (arpa, “barley”)

From Ottoman Turkish آرپه (“barley”), itself from Proto-Turkic *arpa (“barley”).

• IPA^(key): /ɑɾ.pɑ/
• Hyphenation: ar‧pa

• Audio:

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arpa (definite accusative arpayı, plural arpalar)

1. barley

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “arpa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• *àrp`á Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
• Hyllested, Adam (2014) Word Exchange at the Gates of Europe: Five Millennia of Language Contact (PhD. dissertation)‎, Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, pages 32-33

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *arpa (“barley”).

• IPA^(key): /aɾpʰa/
• IPA^(key): /aɾɸa/ (colloquial)

arpa (definite accusative , plural )

1. barley

From Proto-Turkic *arpa (“barley”).

arpa (plural arpalar)

1. barley