papar

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• IPA^(key): /papar/ [pa.par]
• Rhymes: -apar, -ar
• Hyphenation: pa‧par

papar inan

1. chest, bosom

   Synonym: torax

• “papar”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “papar”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Inherited from Latin pappāre.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈpa]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [paˈpaɾ]

papar (first-person singular present papo, first-person singular preterite papí, past participle papat)

1. (transitive) to swallow, to gulp down
2. (figurative) to see

   Synonyms: veure, observar

   no hi papo ― I don't get it

• pap
• papamosques
• papaorelles

• “papar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “papar”, 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

From Old Galician-Portuguese papar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin pappāre (“to eat”). Consult pap for further details.

• IPA^(key): /paˈpaɾ/

papar (first-person singular present papo, first-person singular preterite papei, past participle papado)

1. (informal) to eat; to devour
2. (figurative) to take away; to snatch

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “papar”, 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), “papar”, 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), “papar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “papar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “papar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “papar”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “papar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Malay papar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *parpar (“flat, level”). Doublet of popor. Compare Hawaiian papa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpapar]
• Hyphenation: pa‧par

papar

1. flat (of tooth)

   Synonym: rata

2. flat (of nose)

   Synonym: pesek

   Antonym: mancung

papar (plural papar-papar)

1. hilt: the handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand

   Synonym: punggung

papar

1. to expose

• “papar”, 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

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *parpar (“flat, level”).

• IPA^(key): /papar/
• Rhymes: -apar, -par, -ar

papar (Jawi spelling ڤاڤر, comparative lebih papar, superlative paling papar)

1. flat (of a surface)

   Synonyms: rata, pepat, papak

   Antonym: runcing

   Tanah papar ― Flat land

papar (Jawi spelling ڤاڤر)

1. to display (computers etc.)

   Papar harga ― Display the price

2. to show, to present

   Synonyms: pamer, bentang

   Memapar projek ― To present a project

3. (obsolete) to conscript someone into the army

• Indonesian: papar

• "papar" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) root “*--paD”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese papar, from Latin pappāre.

• Homophone: papá (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: pa‧par

papar (first-person singular present papo, first-person singular preterite papei, past participle papado)

1. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial, usually childish) to eat

   Synonym: comer

2. (transitive, colloquial) to get, to obtain
3. (transitive, colloquial) to steal
4. (transitive, colloquial) to defeat, to win
5. (transitive, colloquial) to walk
6. (transitive, colloquial) to believe
7. (transitive, vulgar) to have sex with

• “papar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “papar”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “papar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьpьrь.

• IPA^(key): /pâpar/
• Hyphenation: pa‧par

pȁpar m inan (Cyrillic spelling па̏пар)

1. (uncountable) pepper (plant or spice of the Old World genus Piper, not of the New World genus Capsicum – however in the compound kajenski papar, as in German Cayennepfeffer)

• “papar”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• Tomislav Maretić, editor (1924–1927), “pápar”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[1] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 9, Zagreb: JAZU, page 626

Inherited from Old Spanish papar, from Latin pappāre (“to eat”).

• IPA^(key): /paˈpaɾ/ [paˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pa‧par

papar (first-person singular present papo, first-person singular preterite papé, past participle papado)

1. to slurp, gulp
2. (colloquial) to munch, chow down

• “papar”, 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