different between paste vs ngapi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French paste (modern pâte), from Old French paste, from Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek ????? (pásta). Doublet of pasta and patty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe?st/
• Rhymes: -e?st
• Homophone: paced

Noun

paste (countable and uncountable, plural pastes)

1. A soft moist mixture, in particular:
   1. One of flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry.
   2. (obsolete) Pastry.
      • 1860, Charles Dickens, Captain Murderer

        And that day month, he had the paste rolled out, and cut the fair twin's head off, and chopped her in pieces, and peppered her, and salted her, and put her in the pie, and sent it to the baker's, and ate it all, and picked the bones.

   3. One of pounded foods, such as fish paste, liver paste, or tomato paste.
   4. One used as an adhesive, especially for putting up wallpapers, etc.
2. (physics) A substance that behaves as a solid until a sufficiently large load or stress is applied, at which point it flows like a fluid
3. A hard lead-containing glass, or an artificial gemstone made from this glass.
4. (obsolete) Pasta.
5. (mineralogy) The mineral substance in which other minerals are embedded.

Descendants

• ? Cebuano: pasta

Translations

Verb

paste (third-person singular simple present pastes, present participle pasting, simple past and past participle pasted)

1. (transitive) To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste.
2. (intransitive, computing) To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else.
3. (transitive, slang) To strike or beat someone or something.
   • 1943, William Saroyan, The Human Comedy, chapter 23,

     He got up and pasted Byfield in the mouth.

4. (transitive, slang) To defeat decisively or by a large margin.

Translations

Anagrams

• Pesta, aspet, pates, peats, pâtés, sepat, septa, septa-, spate, speat, stape, tapes, tepas

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?past?]

Verb

paste

1. second-person plural imperative of pást

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

paste

1. singular past indicative and subjunctive of passen

Italian

Noun

paste f pl

1. plural of pasta

Anagrams

• pesta

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pa?s.te/, [?pä?s?t??]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /?pa?s.te/, [?pa?ste]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pas.te/, [?p?st??]

Participle

p?ste

1. vocative masculine singular of p?stus (“fed, nourished; having eaten, consumed; grazed, pastured; satisfied, gratified”)

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin pasta, from Ancient Greek ????? (pásta).

Noun

paste m (oblique plural pastes, nominative singular pastes, nominative plural paste)

1. dough; paste
2. pastry

Derived terms

• pastaierie

Descendants

• Middle French: paste
  • French: pâte
• ? Middle English: paste
  • English: paste
    • ? Cebuano: pasta
  • Scots: paste, paist

References

• paste on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Portuguese

Verb

paste

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of pastar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of pastar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of pastar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of pastar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?paste/, [?pas.t?e]
• Hyphenation: pas?te

Etymology 1

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Noun

paste m (plural pastes)

1. (Mexico) pasty, pastie (a type of pie or turnover)
2. loofah (plant in the Luffa genus)

Alternative forms

• (loofah): paxte

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

paste

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of pastar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of pastar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of pastar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of pastar.

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• ngapee, nga-pee

Etymology

From Burmese ????? (nga:pi., literally “pressed fish”).

Noun

ngapi (uncountable)

1. (cooking) A pungent Burmese condiment made from fermented and compressed fish or shrimp paste.
   • 1876, "Burmah" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 552:

     The rivers and lakes abound with fish, from which the inhabitants prepare their favourite condiment of ngapee.

   • 1880, J.H. Titcomb, Personal Recollections of British Burma and Its Church Mission Work in 1878–79, Ch. vii:

     Passing by Henzada, because intending to return thither, we went on to Yangdoon or Nyoungdoon, a large and thriving ports celebrated for its fishing trade. Of this fact we were soon abundantly convinced by the abominable smell of nga-pee, a kind of dried and putrid fish, of which the Burmese are particularly fond; nor by that circumstance alone, for we counted a hundred and twenty large trading vessels anchored along the bank.

   • 1882, James George Scott, The Burman: His Life and Notions, Ch. xxviii: "Nga-pee":

     Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think a dinner complete without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.

Hyponyms

• balachong

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd ed. "ngapi, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 2003.

Anagrams

• aping, ganpi

Ngarrindjeri

Alternative forms

• ngan

Pronoun

ngapi

1. I; the first person singular emphatic personal pronoun.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-ngapi (declinable)

1. how many?

Usage notes

Follows the noun and behaves like a normal adjective; for example, nyumba ngapi? ("how many houses?").

Inflection