papa

papa

1. Alternative letter-case form of Papa of the ICAO/NATO radiotelephony alphabet.

• pappa

From French papa, from Middle French papa, from Old French papa, from Latin papa, probably originally a reduplicated imitation of a child's early efforts at vocalising Latin pater (“father”). Compare Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pə-päʹ, IPA^(key): /pəˈpɑː/
• (General American) enPR: päʹ-pə, IPA^(key): /ˈpɑːpə/

• Audio (General American):

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• Homophones: poppa (father-bother merger); popper (non-rhotic, father-bother merger)
• Rhymes: -ɑː, -ɑːpə
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa (plural papas)

1. (often childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
2. (informal) A pet name for one's grandfather.
3. A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
   • 1892, Fergus Hume, The Island of Fantasy: A Romance:

     they are all of the Orthodox Church, and obey devoutly the precepts of Papa Athanasius

4. (international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Papa from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.

• da
• dad
• daddy

• APAP

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

• IPA^(key): [pàpá]

papa

1. father

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

• IPA^(key): [pápá]

papa

1. kindness

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

papa

1. grandchild
2. grandparent

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpa.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpa.pa]

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papa m (plural papes)

1. pope

• papal
• papat

• “papa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

papa

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

Possibly from Spanish papá. Compare Tagalog papa, Central Bikol papa.

• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. a father; a (generally human) male who begets a child
2. a term of address to one's father, father-in-law or husband

• (a father): ama, amahan, tatay

Possibly from Spanish papá. Compare Tagalog papa, Cebuano papa.

• Hyphenation: pa‧pa
• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpa.pa]

papa (feminine mama)

1. A father; a (generally human) male who begets a child.
2. A term of address to one's father, father-in-law or husband.

   Synonyms: ama, tatay

Borrowed from English, French, or Michif papa.

papa

1. father

• (with regard to gender): mama, naha

papa

1. the sister of one's father; paternal aunt

papa

1. duck

• pappa (less common)

Borrowed from French papa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑ.paː/

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa m (plural papa's, diminutive papaatje n)

1. dad (term of address for one’s father, especially used by young children)

   Synonyms: pa, pap

• papadag

• Berbice Creole Dutch: papa
• Negerhollands: popa, pupa
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: popa, pupa (dated)
• Skepi Creole Dutch: papai

• vader

papa

1. duck

• IPA^(key): /pà.pá/

pàpá (plural papawo)

1. dad
2. daddy
3. father

From Middle French papa, child-speak, syllable-repetitive; compare maman.

• IPA^(key): /pa.pa/

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papa m (plural papas)

1. (childish) papa, a child's father; also as form of address: dad, daddy

   Papa, on va où ?

   Daddy, where are we going?

   Au revoir, papa, je t'appelle demain.

   Bye, Dad. I'll call you tomorrow.

2. pops, any man of roughly fatherly age and appearance

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

• “papa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• “papa”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “papa”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa̝/

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

papa m (plural papas)

1. pope

From Old Galician-Portuguese papa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pappa.

papa f (plural papas)

1. (usually in the plural) pap; porridge

   Synonym: papuxa

• papar

papa

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

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “papa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “papa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “papas”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “papa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “papas”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

papa

1. romanization of 𐍀𐌰𐍀𐌰

papa

1. brother

• Gurindji language words from the 50 words project from the Research Unit for Indigenous Language at the University of Melbourne. Retrieved 7 November 2024.

From French papa.

• IPA^(key): /papa/

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papa

1. father, dad, daddy

papa

1. Used to express amazement.

From Proto-Polynesian *papa, from Proto-Oceanic *papan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan (compare with Malay papan or Māori papa).

papa

1. flat surface, layer
2. foundation
3. storey (of a building), floor
4. (rare) table, shelf
5. face (of a clock)

• ʻāpapapa (“reef”)
• papa hoʻolālā (“plan”)
• pāpapa (“flat”)

papa

1. (stative, mathematics) two-dimensional

papa

1. (stative) native-born

papa

1. (stative) set close together
2. (stative) in unison

papa

1. board, lumber

papa

1. (stative) wooden

papa

1. wafer

papa

1. list, directory

   Synonyms: helu, helu papa

papa

1. class (in school)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒpɒ]

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• Hyphenation: pa‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

papa (plural papák)

1. dad

   Coordinate term: mama

2. (dialectal) granddad, grandfather

• papa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Borrowed from English papa, French papa, German Papa, Italian papà, Russian па́па (pápa), Spanish papá.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/

papa (plural papai)

1. papa, dad, daddy, pop

   Synonyms: patreto, patro

   Coordinate terms: mama, matro

From Sanskrit पाप (pāpa, “bad, evil, low”).

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

papa

1. poor condition, misery
2. (Hinduism) sin

• miskin
• sengsara

Devoiced bapa.

• IPA^(key): /pa.pa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. (colloquial) father

• “papa”, 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

Borrowed from Russian папа (papa).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpɑ/, [ˈpɑpɑˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈpɑpɑ/, [ˈpɑb̥ɑˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. dad, papa
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva:

     Na, papa, kala.

     Here, daddy, a fish.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 46:

     Siis papa sannoo meille:

     Then dad says to us:

• mama (“mum, mama”)

Borrowed from English pepper.

papa (dual papak, plural papat)

1. pepper

   Papaliġñaqmiuq imiġaurriugaq.

   Pepper can also be added to a stew.

From Latin papa, from Ancient Greek πάππας (páppas).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.pa/

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Hyphenation: pà‧pa

papa m (plural papi)

1. pope

   Synonym: pontefice

• → Turkish: papa

papa

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぱぱ
2. Rōmaji transcription of パパ

• IPA^(key): [pa.ˈpa]

papa

1. father

• Laércio Nora Bacelar, Gramática da língua Kanoê (2004).

From Proto-Cariban *papa, a nursery word in origin; compare Apalaí papa, Trió papa, Akawaio papa, Macushi papa, Pemon papa, Ye'kwana jaaja, Yao (South America) pape, as well as (from non-Cariban languages) Wayampi papa.

• (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key): [paːpa]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [paʔpa]

papa (plural papante)

1. first-person possessed form of jumy (“father, paternal uncle”)

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008), A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 336
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931), “papa”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 359; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[4], Paris, 1956, page 350

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.pa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpaː.pa]

A nursery word imitative of the movement of the infant's lips during eating. Compare English pap, German Papp, Hungarian papi, Polish papu. Also see the derivative pappō.

• pappa

pāpa f (genitive pāpae); first declension

1. (childish) yum yum, num-num, food (especially pap)

   Cum cibum ac pōtiōnem "buās" ac "pāpās" vocent, mātrem "mammam", patrem "tatam".

   Since children call food "papa" and drink “bua”, mother "mamma" and father "tata".

   (Nonius Marcellus, De Compendiosa Doctrina, 81 M, 2-4)

First-declension noun.

• pappō

• bua

Borrowed from Byzantine Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests & bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”). Some common folk etymologies derive it from various Latin acronyms, such as Petrī apostolī potestātem accipiēns (literally “the one who receives the power of the apostle Peter”).

pāpa m (genitive pāpae, feminine pāpissa); first declension

1. a dad, daddy, father
2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a bishop

   Synonyms: episcopus, pontifex

3. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a pope (the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)

   The traditional exclamation in Rome after a papal election:

   "Habemus papam!" ― "We have a pope!"

   Synonym: pontifex maximus

4. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a patriarch (in primatial sees, notably Coptic Alexandria).

First-declension noun.

• pāpālis
• pāpātus
• pāpō

• papa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "papa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• papa in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[5], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• IPA^(key): [ˈpapːa]

papa m (4th declension, irregular gender, dative singular)

1. (often childish) dad, daddy
2. (archaic) pope

Borrowed from French pape.

papa

1. pope

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/

From child language.

papa m

1. dad, daddy

Borrowed from German Pappe (“pap; paperboard”).

papa f (diminutive papka)

1. pap (soft food)
2. paperboard

Devoiced bapa.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /papə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /papa/
• Rhymes: -apə, -pə, -ə

papa

1. father (male parent)

• bapa (bapanda, bapai, bapak, bapang, baba)
• ayah (ayahanda, aya, yah)
• abah (aba, bah)
• rama

From Proto-Polynesian *papa, from Proto-Oceanic *papan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan (compare with Malay papan or Hawaiian papa).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpɐpɐ]

papa

1. board, plank
2. chart
3. slab
4. floor
5. box, chest
6. victim, sacrifice
7. buttock, flank

• “papa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
• Tregear, Edward (1891), Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎^[6], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 313-4

From French papa.

• IPA^(key): /papa/

papa

1. father

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papa m (plural papas)

1. (Jersey, onomatopoeia) grandfather, grandad, grandpa

papa m (definite singular papaen, indefinite plural papaer or papaar, definite plural papaene or papaane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pappa

From Ecclesiastical Latin pāpa, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɑː.pɑ/
• Rhymes: -āpa

pāpa m

1. pope
   • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

     ...oððe frām leorningcnihtum þǣs ēadigan pāpan Sce. Gregories...

     ...or from disciples of the blessed pope St. Gregory...

   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCC.XCVII Hēr Rōmane Leone þām papan his tungan forcurfon ⁊ his ēagan āstungon, ⁊ hine of his setle āflīemdon, ⁊ þā sōna eft, Gode fultomiendum, hē meahte ġesēon ⁊ sprēcan ⁊ eft was papa swā hē ǣr wæs.

     Year 797 In this year the Romans cut out the tongue of Pope Leo [III] and gouged out his eyes and drove him from his throne. And soon, through God's help, he was able to see and speak again, and became pope again just like he was before.

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• Middle English: pope, pape, popa, papa, papæ, pwope
  • English: pope
    • Jamaican Creole: puop
    • Tok Pisin: pop
    • → Hindi: पोप (pop)
    • → Urdu: پوپ (pop)
  • Scots: pape, paipe, paip

From Sanskrit पाप (pāpa, “bad, evil, low”).

• IPA^(key): /pa.pa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

papa

1. poor condition, misery
   • 1518, Sanghyang Siksa Kandang Karesian:

     "Sungut ulah barang carek kenana dora bancana na lunas papa naraka"

     "Do not speak with your mouth carelessly, for it is the door of disaster at the bottom of the hellish misery."

papa

1. miserable

   Papa urang lamun urang teu dipiéwé.

   How miserable I'd be if I have no woman.

• > Sundanese: papa (inherited)

From Dutch papa.

papa

1. father

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/, [ˈpɐpɐ]

papa

1. dog

   Synonym: tjiṯutja

   Papangku nyinara kuka ngalkuṉu. ― The dog sat eating meat.

• Paul A. Eckert (2007), Pitjantjatjara / Yankunytjatjara Picture Dictionary‎^[7], IAD Press, →ISBN

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

Borrowed from German Pappe.

papa f

1. tarpaper
2. (Central Greater Poland) tarpaper roof

Borrowed from French papa.

papa m pers

1. (archaic) dad

   Synonyms: ojciec, tata

Borrowed from Italian papa.

papa m pers

1. (colloquial) pope

   Synonym: papież

Uncertain. Possibly a deverbal from papać. Alternative theories suggest a derivation from theorized *plapa, from dialectal German Plappe (“mouth”), from plappern.

papa f

1. (colloquial, mildly derogatory) face

Possibly a learned borrowing from Latin pappa.

papa f

1. augmentative of papka

• papa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• papa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1877), “pappa”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 21

• Rhymes: -apɐ
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

From Old Galician-Portuguese papa, probably borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

papa m (plural papas, feminine papisa, feminine plural papisas)

1. (Christianity) pope

• → Swahili: papa

From Latin pappa or pāpa (“infant's cry for food”).

papa f (plural papas)

1. pap (food in the form of a soft paste)
2. baby food (soft food designed for babies)
3. (informal, childish) any type of food
4. (figurative) something with a pasty consistency

• não ter papas na língua

papa

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

• papar

• “papa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “papa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Of native origin.

papa

1. potato

• → Spanish: papa

From Spanish papa.

papa

1. pope

From Proto-Polynesian *papa, from Proto-Oceanic *papan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *papan (compare with Malay papan or Hawaiian papa).

papa

1. flat stone; shelf in the bottom of the sea; rocky sea bottom
2. wooden plank

• “papa”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN

From French pape.

pāpá class 1a (plural bāpāpá class 2a)

1. pope

papa

1. burster

From Ecclesiastical Latin papa, from Byzantine Greek πάπας (pápas, “priest”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

• IPA^(key): /pâːpa/
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

pȃpa m anim (Cyrillic spelling па̑па)

1. pope (of the Catholic Church)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpa.pa]

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• Audio (Peru):

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• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

Borrowed from Latin papas, from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, “bishop, patriarch”), variant of πάππας (páppas, “father”).

papa m (plural papas)

1. pope (an honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome)

• → Tagalog: Papa

Borrowed from Quechua papa.

papa f (plural papas)

1. (Latin America, US, Canary Islands, Andalusia, Equatorial Guinea) potato

   Synonym: patata (Spain, Philippines)

From Latin pappa (“food; used regarding children”).^[1][2]

papa f (plural papas)

1. (childish, familiar) very bland soup, or more broadly, food in general
2. (figuratively) nonsense, trifle, rubbish

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

papa

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

• “papa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “papa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• “papa”, in Diccionario del español de México, Segunda edición, Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, 2019
• DiPerú | Diccionario de peruanismos en línea

• Appendix:Spanish nouns that have different meanings depending on their gender

Compare English papa, Dutch papa, Akan papa, Ewe papa.

• p'pa
• ppa

• IPA^(key): /pːa/, /paˈpa/

papa

1. father, dad

   Synonym: tata

2. sir, gentleman
3. (colloquial) penis

Derived from Dutch pap

• IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/

papa

1. mush
2. porridge
3. a sweet custard-based or cornflour-based dessert

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

papa class IX (plural papa class X)

1. shark

Borrowed from Portuguese papa.

papa class V (plural mapapa class VI)

1. alternative letter-case form of Papa (“pope”)

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

-papa (infinitive kupapa)

1. to tremble, quiver
2. (of the heart) to beat, palpitate

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -papia

• Nominal derivations:
  • kipapa
  • papo

See hapa.

papa

1. only used in papa hapa

Each pronunciation has a different source:

• /paˈpa/ from Spanish papá, adapted from French papa
• /papa/ from Hokkien 爸爸 (pâ-pâ)
• /ˈpapa/ from English papa / poppa

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /paˈpa/ [pɐˈpa] (Spanish pronunciation)
    • Rhymes: -a
    • Syllabification: pa‧pa
  • IPA^(key): /papa/ [pa.pa] (Hokkien pronunciation)
    • Rhymes: -apa
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpaː.pɐ] (English Pronunciation)
    • Rhymes: -apa
    • Syllabification: pa‧pa

papa or papá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

1. (informal, familiar, childish) dad; daddy

   Synonyms: pa, ama, tatay, itay, tay, tatang

   Coordinate term: mama

2. (slang) boyfriend; sugar daddy

• fafa — gay slang

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /paˈpaʔ/ [pɐˈpaʔ]
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • IPA^(key): /paˈpa/ [pɐˈpa] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

papâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

1. low and flat

papâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

1. gentle slope

   Antonym: tibong

2. (architecture) house with low roof and little airflow

   Synonyms: alipapa, dampa

Borrowed from Spanish papa, from Latin pappa (“food; used regarding children”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpapaʔ/ [ˈpaː.pɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -apaʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

papà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (colloquial)

1. food for kids who are only just beginning to speak

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpaː.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

papa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

1. standard size of fabric width

   Synonyms: luwang, antso

2. (obsolete) sewing two pieces of sheet widthwise

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpapaʔ/ [ˈpaː.pɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -apaʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

papà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (zoology)

1. bee (Apis mellifera) that collects honey

   Synonym: bubuyog

Possibly from paapa (“cone-shaped”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpapa/ [ˈpaː.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

papa (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ)

1. (zoology) telescope snail (Telescopium telescopium)

   Synonyms: bangungon, kuhol, suso

2. a cone-shaped shell

   Synonym: kabibe

• Also called susong papa.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpapaʔ/ [ˈpaː.pɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -apaʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

papà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (obsolete)

1. tearing the taro leaf to the skin

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈpaʔ/ [pɐˈpaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: pa‧pa

papâ (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜉ) (obsolete)

1. name of the Baybayin letter ᜉ (pa), corresponding to "pa"

• “papa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de; Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860), Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves, y coordinado por…, ultimamente aumentado y corregido por varios religiosos de la Orden de Agustinos calzados.‎^[8] (overall work in Spanish and Classical Tagalog), Manila: Ramírez y Giraudier.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613), Vocabulario de lengua tagala. El romance castellano puesto primero. Primera, y segunda parte.‎^[9] (overall work in Early Modern Spanish and Classical Tagalog), as directed by Gov. Gen. Juan de Silva, Pila, Laguna: La noble Villa de Pila, por Tomás Pinpin y Domingo Loag.
  • page 58: “Añadir) Papa (pp) dos pieças coſiendo las alo ãcho”
  • page 196: “Coſer) Papa (pp) dos piernas de liẽço ancho cõ ancho a diferençia del paſado [q̃ es] punta con punta”
  • page 458: “P) Papa (pc) letra de; Abeçe de los tagalos .|. papayaon .|. ᜉ. eſta letra les ſirue de . f . ꝑa lo Eſpañol, porqu: no la tienen, ſumulat ca nang papa ſa ſulat tavo, haz la letra. P . en letra de indio.”
  • page 483: “Pierna) Papa (pp) de lienço o ſabana”

From English papa.

papa

1. father

• papamama

• IPA^(key): [ˈpa.pa]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

From Proto-Polynesian *papa (“flat surface”). Cognates include Hawaiian papa and Māori papa.

papa

1. rock
2. rocky area

papa

1. (stative) to be flat
2. (stative) to be hard

From Proto-Polynesian *papa (“fish”). Cognates include Māori pā and Samoan papa.

papa

1. a school of caranxes

papa

1. (intransitive) to group together into a school

papa

1. bra

Of imitative origin.

papa

1. daddy, dad

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[10], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 261

From Proto-Bantu *bààbá.

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papa

1. father (male parent)

• mama

Borrowed from Italian papa. Doublet of papaz and peder.

• IPA^(key): /pɑˈpɑ/, [pʰɑˈpɑ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧pa

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papa (definite accusative papayı, plural papalar)

1. pope