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Etymology
Borrowed from Nivkh ӿаваф (havaf).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
hapah (Kana spelling ハパㇵ, possessed form hapapuhu)
- (Sakhalin, anatomy) lungs
- Synonym: yukram
References
- ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (2016) “On the Linguistic Prehistory of Hokkaidō”, in Gruzdeva Ekaterina, Janhunen Juha, editors, Crosslinguistics and Linguistic Crossings in Northeast Asia. Papers on the Languages of Sakhalin and Adjacent Regions (Studia Orientalia; 117), Helsinki, pages 29–38.