pa'

• pai, par
• pa (alternative spelling)

Apocopic form of par, from earlier pal.

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa'

1. for

   Lu mondu è cussì mannu chi v’è loggu pa' tutti ― The world is so big that there's room for everyone

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Un cuntaddu [A tale], adaptation of Raccontino by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 47:

     […] rizibia l’amigghi ma timendi
     pa’ lu figlioru inchiétu. […]

     she received her friends, although fearing for the anxious son.

2. because of, due to

   È capitaddu pa' cùipa tóia ― It's your fault it happened (literally, “It has happened for your fault”)

   • a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese‎ (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 9, lines 31–63:

     Mentri chi ruinaba in logu bassu,
     dinanzi a l'occi mi s'apprisentesi
     ca pa tantu sirenziu paria mudu.

     As I went down to a low place, presented himself before my eyes, who seemed to be mute because of a long silence.

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Lu vedru a pezzi [The shattered glass], adaptation of Raccontino by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 39:

     […] la casa
     véccia chi trimurendi è pa’ lu ventu

     the old house, which is trembling because of the wind

3. in order to, to

   Pa' fà la bagna, vi vo' la pummatta ― You need tomatoes to make sauce

   • a. 1950 [1314], Dante Alighieri, “Divina Cumedia: Cantu primu”, in Salvator Ruju, transl., L'Inferru dantesco in sassarese e logudorese‎ (overall work in Italian, Sassarese, and Logudorese), Soter Editrice, translation of Inferno, published 2015 November, page 4, lines 7–9:

     Tant'è maru chi pogu è più la morthi;
     ma pa cuntà lu bè chi v'incuntresi,
     l'althri cosi aggiu a dì chi v'aggiu visthu

     It's so dreadful that death is little more; but, in order to narrate of the good I found there, I'll tell about the other things I saw there.

   • 1989 [1934], Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Paràuri [Words], adaptation of Parole by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 11:

     abà zerchu i lu mondu lu cuzoru,
     un’oasi prupizia pa’ pudé
     cu lu pientu annittavvi da li fàuri
     chi vi sò già incighendi.

     now I'm looking for a corner in the world, a propitious oasis, to be able to clean you through weeping, from the lies that are blinding you

     (literally, “no I look in the world for a corner, a propitious oasis, in order to be able to cleanse you with my tears from the lies that are already blinding you.”)

4. in, on

   Mi n'andaba in giru pa' la ziddai ― I was going around town

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Puisia [Poem], adaptation of Poesia by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 19:

     […] si n’anda
     muru muru pa’ la ziddài ciambadda
     in un inferru di ghiacciu […]

     He, along the walls, goes around the town, changed into an icy hell

5. across
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, Ulisse [Ulysses], adaptation of Ulisse by Umberto Saba; collected in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1989, page 51:

     I la me’ giubintura navigaddu
     aggiu pa’ tanti mari. […]

     In my youth, I've sailed across many seas.

6. as

   Cosa vuraristhi pa' primmu piattu? ― What would you like as the main course?

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• pa

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa/

pa'

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of para
   • 2018, “Sin pijama”, in Mala santa, performed by Becky G and Natti Natasha:

     Si tú me llamas, nos vamos pa’ tu casa / Nos quedamo’ en la cama / Sin pijama, sin pijama

     If you call me / Let's go to your home / We'll stay in the bed / Without pajamas, without pajamas