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pap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pæp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian ????? (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian ??????/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 (plural paps)
- (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.
- (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
- (South Africa) Porridge.
- (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
- The pulp of fruit.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Translations
Verb
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
- (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)
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)
- (archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
- (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
- A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
Translations
Etymology 3
Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.
Noun
pap (plural paps)
- Pap smear
Etymology 4
From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”). Cognate with etymology 1.
Adjective
pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)
- (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
- (South Africa, slang) Flat.
Translations
Etymology 5
Clipping of paparazzo.
Noun
pap (plural paps)
- (informal) A paparazzo.
- 2015, "Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments", 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, "Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments", OK! Magazine:
Verb
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
- (informal, usually passive) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
Etymology 6
Compare pa, papa, pop.
Noun
pap (plural paps)
- (informal) Pa; father.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father
Etymology 7
Verb
pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: pap
References
Anagrams
- APP, App, PPA, app, app.
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch pap, from Middle Dutch pappe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pap/
Noun
pap (uncountable)
- porridge
References
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Aromanian
Noun
pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj/pãpenj)
- grandfather
- ancestor, forefather
- old man
Synonyms
- (grandfather): ghiush, tot
- (old man): mosh, aush, bitãrnu
See also
- babã
- omã
Catalan
Etymology
From papar.
Noun
pap m (plural paps)
- crop, craw
- Synonym: gavatx
- double chin
- Synonym: papada
- belly
- Synonym: panxa
Derived terms
- papada
Further reading
- “pap” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
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, p?pa (“an infant's cry for food”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p??b?]
Noun
pap n (singular definite pappet, plural indefinite papper)
- cardboard
Inflection
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?p/
- Hyphenation: pap
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch pappe.
Noun
pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)
- mush
- porridge
Derived terms
- bloempap
- gortepap
- griesmeelpap
- rijstepap
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)
- (colloquial) Pa, dad
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
pap
- first-person singular present indicative of pappen
- imperative of pappen
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from a Slavic (probably from a South Slavic) language. Compare Bulgarian ??? (pop), Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian ??? (pop).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?p?p]
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
pap (plural papok)
- priest (in Catholic terminology)
Declension
Derived terms
See also
References
Further reading
- pap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Indonesian
Alternative forms
- PAP
Etymology
Borrowed from English pap (sense 7, but likely also from sense 5).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pap/
Noun
pap (first-person possessive papku, second-person possessive papmu, third-person possessive papnya)
- (slang) A picture obtained as a result of pap.
- (from sense 4 of the verb) (watch the trailer on Instagram, which contains the scene)
Verb
pap
- (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture (especially a photograph), usually as proof of something.
- (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.
- (slang) to take a picture of something.
- (slang) to take/send a picture of oneself, especially of their sexual body parts; to send a nude
- (slang, usually active) to take a picture of someone, usually surreptitiously and without their consent.
Usage notes
- Unlike in English (sense 7 and/or sense 5), none of the meanings above are exclusive to text messaging.
Pohnpeian
Verb
pap
- to swim
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pap]
Verb
pap
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of p?pa
Zazaki
Noun
pap (c)
- popcorn
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pava
Catalan
Etymology
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /?pa.v?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /?pa.b?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?pa.va/
Adjective
pava
- feminine singular of pau
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.va/
Verb
pava
- third-person singular past historic of paver
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?pa?.u?a/, [?pä?u?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?pa.va/, [?p??v?]
Noun
p?va f (genitive p?vae); first declension
- peahen; also eaten as a delicacy.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Related terms
- p?v?
- p?v?n?nus
Descendants
- Russian: ???? (pava)
References
- pava in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- pava in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French paver.
Verb
a pava (third-person singular present paveaz?, past participle pavat) 1st conj.
- to pave
Conjugation
Related terms
- pavaj
- paviment
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?paba/, [?pa.??a]
Noun
pava f (plural pavas)
- turkey hen
- (Spain, colloquial) bore
- a type of pot; a boiler
Derived terms
- pelar la pava
- pava real
Swedish
Etymology
From Tavringer Romani pavli, pavali, pava, pavani (“bottle”), cognate to Traveller Norwegian pavvali, pavvani (“bottle”). Nominalization of Romani pi- (“to drink”), with an infinitive suffix -va found in other Romani varieties (but not in Scandoromani), e.g. Kalo Finnish Romani pi?v? (“to drink”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²p??va/
- Rhymes: -²??va
Noun
pava c
- (colloquial) bottle (of alcohol)
Declension
References
- pava in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- “pava” in Gerd Carling, Romani i svenskan: Storstadsslang och standardspråk, Stockholm: Carlsson, 2005, ?ISBN, page 97.
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