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See also: Pap, PAP, páp, pǎp, and pàp

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Papiamento or Papiamentu Papiamento.

Symbol

pap

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Papiamentu.

See also

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English pap. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, папам (papam, to eat) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (to eat), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.

Noun

pap (countable and uncountable, plural paps)

  1. (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
    Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.
  2. (uncountable, colloquial) Pablum or nonsense.
  3. (South Africa) Porridge.
    Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
  4. (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
  5. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
    Treasury pap
  6. The pulp of fruit.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (breast, nipple), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (nipple), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (pock mark, nipple); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (breast, pap).

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. (archaic) A female breast or nipple.
  2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast.
  3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
Translations

Etymology 3

Ellipsis of Pap smear.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pap (Pap smear).

Etymology 4

From Afrikaans pap (porridge). Cognate with etymology 1.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
    • 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:
      His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap. I could easily hit him. I could kill him if I wanted to.
  2. (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
    He is so pap and boring.
  3. (South Africa, slang) Flat.
    I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
Translations

Etymology 5

Clipping of paparazzo.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. (informal) Clipping of paparazzo.
    • 2015, “Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments”, in OK! Magazine:
      As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way.
    • 2015, Mira Bailee, Broken Strings:
      We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.
    • 2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian:
      The only aspect of his mother’s death that he finds unforgettable is the identity of those who caused it: the press and the paps, variously referred to as ghouls, pustules, dogs, weasels, idiots and sadists, who after “torturing” his mother “would come for me”.

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

  1. (informal, usually passive voice) To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
    Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!
    • 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
      The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).

Etymology 6

Compare pa, papa, pop.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. (informal) Pa; father.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father
    • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
      Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.

Etymology 7

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of PAP (post a picture).
Descendants
  • Indonesian: pap

References

  1. ^ pap, adjective in the Dictionary of South African English, Rhodes University.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch pap, from Middle Dutch pappe.

Pronunciation

Noun

pap (uncountable)

  1. porridge

Descendants

References

Aromanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin pappus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πάππος(pàppos).

Noun

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj/pãpenj)

  1. grandfather
  2. ancestor, forefather
  3. old man

Synonyms

See also

Catalan

Etymology

Deverbal from papar.

Noun

pap m (plural paps)

  1. crop, craw
    Synonym: gavatx
  2. double chin
    Synonym: papada
  3. belly
    Synonym: panxa

Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

From German Pappe, from Middle High German pappe (porridge, mush), a common nursery word for "porridge", compare Upper German Papp, English pap, Latin pappa, pāpa (an infant's cry for food).

Pronunciation

Noun

pap n (singular definite pappet, plural indefinite papper)

  1. cardboard

Declension

Declension of pap
neuter
gender
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pap pappet papper papperne
genitive paps pappets pappers pappernes

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pappe.

Noun

pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

  1. mush
  2. porridge
Derived terms
Descendants

Etymology 2

Shorter form of papa, usually considered more grown-up, whereas papa is considered rather child-like.

Noun

pap m (uncountable, diminutive paps n)

  1. (colloquial) pa, dad

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pap

  1. inflection of pappen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Hungarian

 pap (hivatás) on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic (probably from a South Slavic) language. Compare Bulgarian поп (pop), Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop).

Pronunciation

Noun

pap (plural papok)

  1. priest (in Catholic terminology)

Declension

Possessive forms of pap
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. papom papjaim
2nd person sing. papod papjaid
3rd person sing. papja papjai
1st person plural papunk papjaink
2nd person plural papotok papjaitok
3rd person plural papjuk papjaik

Derived terms

Compound words

See also

References

  1. ^ pap in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English pap (sense 7, but likely also from sense 5).

Pronunciation

Noun

pap (plural pap-pap)

  1. (slang) a picture obtained as a result of pap

Verb

pap

  1. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture (especially a photograph), usually as proof of something
  2. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture of oneself with their background location visible and/or to take/send/post a picture of a location (in which one is currently in), especially (as proof) to show where one currently is
  3. (slang) to take a picture of something
  4. (slang) to take/send a picture of oneself, especially of their sexual body parts; to send a nude
  5. (slang, usually active voice) to take a picture of someone, usually surreptitiously and without their consent

Usage notes

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French papa and Medieval Latin papo.

Pronunciation

Noun

pap (uncountable)

  1. A gruel or porridge; baby food

Descendants

References

Pohnpeian

Verb

pap

  1. to swim

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

pap f

  1. genitive plural of papa

Romanian

Pronunciation

Verb

pap

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of păpa

Sumerian

Romanization

pap

  1. romanization of 𒉽 (pap)

Zazaki

Noun

pap (c)

  1. popcorn