napas

napas

1. plural of napa

• apans, Sapan, paans, sapan, panas, pasan, APAns, Panas, NASPA

Borrowed from Indonesian napas (“breath”).

napas

1. to breathe

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnapas]

napas

1. second-person singular imperative of napást

• nafas (proscribed)

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈnapas/ [ˈna.pas]
• Rhymes: -apas
• Syllabification: na‧pas

From Malay nafas, napas, from Classical Malay نفس (nafas), نفس (napas), from Arabic نَفَس (nafas, “breath”). The phoneme -f- was changed to -p- to suit phonological inventories of local languages which lack -f-. In fact, both forms napas and nafas in practice are often acceptable due to influence of the Arabic word.

napas (plural napas-napas)

1. breath

   Sang dokter mengambil dua napas panjang. ― The doctor took two deep breaths.

• → Amahai: napas

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napas (comparative lebih napas, superlative paling napas)

1. fulvous

• “napas”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

napas

1. breath

napas f

1. plural of napa

napas f pl

1. plural of napa

napas m pl or f pl by sense

1. plural of napa

Borrowed from Malay nafas, from Arabic نَفَس (nafas, “breath”).

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /napas/ [n̪aˈpas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: na‧pas

napas (Sulat Sūg spelling نَفَسْ)

1. breath