pipa

English

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pipa

Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• p'i-p'a (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos.

Noun

pipa (plural pipas)

1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

Translations

Anagrams

• IPPA, PAPI

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pipa f (plural pipes)

1. pipe, tobacco pipe
2. pacifier

   Synonym: xumet

3. Ganoderma lucidum, a red-coloured mushroom
4. sunflower seed

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Verb

pipa

1. inflection of pipar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Finnish

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

pipa

Wikipedia ^fi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ipɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧pa

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

Noun

pipa

1. pipa (a type of Chinese lute)

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

pipa (dialectal)

1. Alternative form of pipo

Declension

Anagrams

• appi

French

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

pipa m (plural pipas)

1. pipa (instrument)

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Galician

Etymology

14th century. From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pipo (“I pip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe, butt
   • 1373, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     Item aqui en casa tres pipas et dous tonees et tres barrys grandes

     Item, here at home, three pipes and two tuns and three large barrels

2. pipe, flute

   Synonym: pito

   • 1370, R. Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana., A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 378:

     Et os hũus tãgíã cornos et os outros pipas, et os que estauã perlos muros da vila, algũus deles deostauã et dezíã moyto mal aos de fora.

     And some played horns and others pipes, and of the ones that were by the walls of the town, some insulted and told many mean things to the ones outside

3. tobacco pipe

   Synonym: cachimba

Derived terms

• pipote

References

• “pipa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “pipa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “pipa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “pipa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “pipa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pipa, from French pipe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

Noun

pipa (plural pipák)

1. pipe (for smoking)
2. tick, checkmark (✓)

   Coordinate term: (×) iksz

Declension

Derived terms

• vízipipa

Descendants

• → Romanian: pipă

Adjective

pipa (comparative pipább, superlative legpipább)

1. (colloquial, predicatively) angry, furious

   Nagyon pipa vagyok rád. ― I'm very angry with you.

Declension

References

Further reading

• pipa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

pipa

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Etymology

• From Malay pipa (“barrel, cask, chimney”), from Portuguese pipa (“cask”), from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipo (“I pip”).
• The sense “pipe” is a semantic loan from Dutch pijp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa (first-person possessive pipaku, second-person possessive pipamu, third-person possessive pipanya)

1. pipe,
   1. a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications.

      Synonyms: pembuluh, buluh-buluh

   2. a hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe.
2. chimney

   Synonym: cerobong

Alternative forms

• paip (“pipe”) (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “pipa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pa/
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: pì‧pa

Etymology 1

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

pipa

Wikipedia ^it

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f (plural pipe)

1. pipe
2. (vulgar, slang) a wank

Descendants

• → Czech: pípa
• → German: Pipe
• → Greek: πίπα (pípa)
• → Hungarian: pipa
  • → Romanian: pipă
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пипа

  Latin script: pipa

• → Slovak: pipa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pipa

1. inflection of pipare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• appi, papi

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian pipa and/or Italian pipa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.pa/

Noun

pipa f (plural pipi)

1. pipe (smoking implement)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pipen

Noun

pipa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pipa f (definite singular pipa, indefinite plural piper or pipor, definite plural pipene or pipone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pipe
2. definite singular of pipe

Verb

pipa (present tense pip, past tense peip, supine pipe, past participle pipen, present participle pipande, imperative pip)

1. Alternative form of pipe

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

pipa

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pa/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

Etymology 1

Probably from French pipe or Italian pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa.

Noun

pipa f (diminutive pipka)

1. pipette (small glass tube used for transferring liquid)

   Synonym: pipeta

2. (colloquial, vulgar) minge

   Synonym: cipa

3. (derogatory, vulgar) pussy, sissy (timid, unassertive or cowardly person)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

Noun

pipa f

1. pipa (Chinese lute)

Declension

Further reading

• pipa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• pipa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:

pipa

Wikipedia ^pt

Alternative forms

• pipo

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese pipa (“pipe”), from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip, to pipe”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe, a wooden barrel, cask, or vat, especially for wine
2. (historical, measure) pipe, a traditional unit of liquid volume equal to 400–550 liters depending on the part of Portugal
3. (measure) truckload, the volume of a tanker
4. (Brazil) kite, a flying toy on a string

   soltar pipa ― to fly a kite

Synonyms

• (cask): barril
• (kite): pandorga (Brazil), papagaio de papel (Portugal)

Coordinate terms

• (unit of liquid volume): almude (¹⁄₂₅ pipa), barril (¹⁄₈ or ¹⁄₆ pipa), tonel (2 pipas)

Derived terms

• caminhão-pipa

Descendants

• → Gujarati: પીપ (pīp)
• → Swahili: pipa

Romanian

Etymology

From pipă +‎ -a.

Verb

a pipa (third-person singular present pipează, past participle pipat) 1st conj.

1. to smoke a pipe

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pîpa/
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏па)

1. faucet, tap

   Synonyms: slàvina, špȋna, rubìnet

Declension

References

• “pipa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pìːpa/

Noun

pípa f

1. tap, faucet (device to dispense liquid)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe (device used for smoking)

   Synonym: cachimba

2. barrel

   Synonyms: cuba, barril

3. (colloquial) gun; shooter

Noun

pipa m or f by sense (plural pipas)

1. (colloquial) roadie

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Basque: pipa

Adverb

pipa

1. (colloquial) very good

   Synonym: estupendamente

   Se lo está pasando pipa.

   He's having a blast.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From pepita.

Noun

pipa m (plural pipas)

1. (colloquial) a genius, a smart person

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. (Spain) sunflower seed

   Synonym: pepita

2. (Central America) green coconut

Derived terms

Related terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pipa

1. inflection of pipar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pipa.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

Noun

pipa (ma class, plural mapipa)

1. barrel, cask

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse pípa.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

pipa c

1. a pipe (e.g. smoking tool, organ pipe etc)
2. the barrel of a gun
3. a small wind instrument; flute
4. the hollow tube of a bone
5. a type of Chinese lute; pipa
6. (slang) singing voice
7. (historical) a pipe (an old unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 470 liters or 124 US gallons)

Declension

Related terms

• benpipa (a smoking pipe made of bone)
• glasblåsarpipa (a glasblower pipe)
• kritpipa (a smoking pipe made of clay)
• orgelpipa (organ pipe)
• piprensare (smoking pipe cleaner wire)
• piptobak (pipe tobacco)
• säckpipa (a bagpipe)
• tobakspipa (a smoking tool)

Descendants

• → Finnish: piippu
  • → Ingrian: piippu

Verb

pipa (present piper, preterite pep, supine pipit, imperative pip)

1. to yield a high sound or tone; squeak, peep, beep

   Möss, fågelungar och datorer piper

   Mice squeak, baby birds peep, and computers beep

Conjugation

See also

• pip
• pipare
• pipljud

Further reading

• pipa in Svensk ordbok.

Venetian

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pipo (“I pip”).

Noun

pipa f

1. pipe

Etymology 2

Compare Spanish pepita (“nugget”), Portuguese pevide (“flat seed”).

Noun

pipa f

1. acorn

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pipa f

1. circumflex (diacritic)
2. háček (diacritic)

References

• “pipa₁”, “pipa₂”, and “pipa₃” listed on page 216 of Lodovico Pizzati’s Venetian–English English–Venetian: When in Venice Do as the Venetians (2007, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpa/

Verb

pipa

1. inflection of pipo:
   1. first-person singular future
   2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation