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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Etymology 1

From Middle English impen, ympen (“to plant; (figuratively) to bury; to graft; to add to, insert, put into, set in; to mend (a falcon’s feather) by attaching a new feather on to the broken stump”), from Old English impian, ?eimpian (“to graft”), from Proto-West Germanic *imp?n (“to graft”), from Vulgar Latin *imput? (“to graft”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (émphutos, “implanted; planted”), from ?????? (emphú?, “to implant”) (from ??- (en-, prefix meaning ‘in’) + ???? (phú?, “to bring forth, produce; to grow”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to appear; to become; to grow”))) + -??? (-tos).

Verb

imp (third-person singular simple present imps, present participle imping, simple past and past participle imped) (transitive)

1. (obsolete) To engraft or plant (a plant or part of one, a sapling, etc.).
2. (figuratively, archaic) To graft or implant (something other than a plant); to fix or set (something) in.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.9:

     That headlesse tyrants tronke he reard from ground, / And, having ympt the head to it agayne, / Upon his usuall beast it firmely bound, / And made it so to ride as it alive was found.

3. (falconry)
   1. To engraft (a feather) on to a broken feather in a bird's wing or tail to repair it; to engraft (feathers) on to a bird's wing or tail.
   2. To engraft (a bird, or bird's wing or tail) with feathers.
   3. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with wings, hence enabling them or it to soar.
      • 1633, George Herbert, "Easter Wings"

        With thee / Let me combine, / And feel this day thy victory / For, if I imp my wing on thine, / Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

4. (by extension) To add to or unite with (something) another object to lengthen it out or repair it; to eke out, enlarge, strengthen.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English impe, ympe (“tree branch; shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling; tree”) [and other forms], from Old English impa, impe (“shoot, sprig; graft, scion; young tree, sapling, seedling”), from impian, ?eimpian (“to graft”) (see etymology 1).

Noun

imp (plural imps)

1. (chiefly fiction and mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2). [from 16th c.]
   • 1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel:

     Nor cared to mingle in the clamorous fray / Of squabbling imps […]
2. (by extension)
   1. (often humorous) A mischievous child. [from 17th c.]

      Synonyms: brat, little dickens, scamp, urchin

      • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

        I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist...

   2. A baby Tasmanian devil.
3. (obsolete)
   1. A young shoot of a plant, a tree, etc.; a sapling; also, a part of a plant used for grafting; a graft. [9th–18th c.]
      • 14th c., Sir Orfeo, 69:

        Þai sett hem doun al þre / Vnder a fair ympe-tre.

      • 1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”^[1]

        Out of these rootes spring other impes, no lesse perniciouse than the stockes of whiche they come […]

   2. An offspring or scion, especially of a noble family; (generally) a (usually male) child; a (young) man. [15th–19th c.]
      • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:

        And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue, / Faire Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].

      • The tender imp was weaned from the teat.

   3. (Britain, dialectal) Something added to or united with another to lengthen it out or repair it (such as an eke or small stand on which a beehive is placed, or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line).

Derived terms

• impish
• impishly
• implike
• impishness

Translations

References

Further reading

• imp on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• IPM, MIP, MPI, PIM, PMI

English

Etymology

From Zulu impi.

Noun

impi (plural impis)

1. A group of Zulu (or other Bantu) warriors; a detachment of armed men.
   • 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 212:

     And in the end he, as well as three of his four children, shared Retief's fate in the massacre of Trekkers by the Zulu impis of Dingane.

   • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 26:

     But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe.

Translations

Anagrams

• MIPI

Catawba

Noun

impi

1. fire

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *impi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?impi/, [?impi]
• Rhymes: -impi
• Syllabification: im?pi

Noun

impi

1. (dated) virgin

Declension

Synonyms

• neitsyt
• immyt

Derived terms

• Impi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay impi, from Proto-Malayic *impi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hipi, from Proto-Austronesian *Sipi. Doublet of mimpi.

Verb

impi

1. to dream (to hope; to wish)

Derived terms

Further reading

• “impi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *impi, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hipi, from Proto-Austronesian *Sipi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /impi/
• Rhymes: -impi, -pi, -i

Verb

impi (Jawi spelling ??????)

1. to dream (to hope; to wish)

   Synonym: mimpi

Derived terms

Descendants

• Indonesian: impi

Further reading

• “impi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• "impi" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, ?ISBN, 2005.

Xhosa

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [í??pí]

Noun

ímpí 9 (plural ízimpí 10)

1. army, regiment

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Zulu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /î?mpí/

Noun

împí 9 (plural ízimpí 10)

1. war, battle
2. army, regiment

Inflection

Derived terms

• ubumpi

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “-mpi”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “-mpi (2-8.3)”