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Pipa

Pi-pa

,
Noun.
;
pl.
Pipas
.
(Zool.)
The Surinam toad (
Pipa Americana
), noted for its peculiar breeding habits.
☞ The male places the eggs on the back of the female, where they soon become inclosed in capsules formed by the thickening of the skin. The incubation of the eggs takes place in the capsules, and the young, when hatched, come forth with well developed legs.

Definition 2024


pipa

pipa

See also: PIPA, pípa, pípá, and pipă

English

Noun

pipa (plural pipas)

  1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

Translations


Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpipɒ]
  • Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa (plural pipák)

  1. pipe (for smoking)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative pipa pipák
accusative pipát pipákat
dative pipának pipáknak
instrumental pipával pipákkal
causal-final pipáért pipákért
translative pipává pipákká
terminative pipáig pipákig
essive-formal pipaként pipákként
essive-modal
inessive pipában pipákban
superessive pipán pipákon
adessive pipánál pipáknál
illative pipába pipákba
sublative pipára pipákra
allative pipához pipákhoz
elative pipából pipákból
delative pipáról pipákról
ablative pipától pipáktól
Possessive forms of pipa
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pipám pipáim
2nd person sing. pipád pipáid
3rd person sing. pipája pipái
1st person plural pipánk pipáink
2nd person plural pipátok pipáitok
3rd person plural pipájuk pipáik

Derived terms

Adjective

pipa (comparative pipább, superlative legpipább)

  1. (slang) angry, furious
    Nagyon pipa vagyok rád. ― I'm very angry with you.

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.


Indonesian

Noun

pipa

  1. pipe

Italian

Noun

pipa f (plural pipe)

  1. pipe

Verb

pipa

  1. third-person singular present indicative of pipare
  2. second-person singular imperative of pipare

Anagrams


Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

pipa m, f

  1. definite feminine singular of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pipa f

  1. definite singular of pipe

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipāre.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pa/, /ˈpi.pɐ/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pɐ/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. (Brazil) kite (flying toy on string)
  2. a large wooden barrel for wine
  3. an obsolete unit of measure, equivalent to a full pipa (wooden barrel)
  4. the truckload of a tank truck

Synonyms

  • (kite): pandorga (Brazil), papagaio de papel (Portugal)
  • (barrel): barril

Derived terms

  • caminhão-pipa

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pîpa/
  • Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏па)

  1. faucet, tap

Declension

Synonyms

References

  • pipa” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpìːpa/
  • Tonal orthography: pípa

Noun

pípa f (genitive pípe, nominative plural pípe)

  1. tap (device to dispense liquid)

Declension


Spanish

Adverb

pipa

  1. (colloquial) very good

Synonyms

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Vulgar Latin *pipa

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. (smoking) pipe
  2. barrel

Synonyms

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

pipa m (plural pipas)

  1. (colloquial) a genius, a smart person
  2. (Spain) sunflower seed
Derived terms
Related terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

pipa c

  1. a pipe, a smoking tool
  2. the barrel of a gun
  3. an organ pipe
  4. a small wind instrument; flute
  5. the hollow tube of a bone
  6. a type of Chinese lute; pipa
  7. (slang) singing voice

Declension

Inflection of pipa 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative pipa pipan pipor piporna
Genitive pipas pipans pipors pipornas

Related terms

  • benpipa
  • orgelpipa
  • piprensare
  • piptobak
  • säckpipa

Verb

pipa (present piper, preterite pep, supine pipit, imperative pip)

  1. to yield a high sound or tone; squeak, beep

Conjugation

See also


Venetian

Etymology 1

Noun

pipa f

  1. pipe

Etymology 2

Noun

pipa f

  1. acorn

Etymology 3

Noun

pipa f

  1. circumflex (diacritic)
  2. háček (diacritic)

References

  • “pipa₁”, “pipa₂”, and “pipa₃” listed on page 216 of Lodovico Pizzati’s Venetian–English English–Venetian: When in Venice Do as the Venetians (2007, AuthorHouse, ISBN 9781425987909)