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From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos.

pipa (plural pipas)

  1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

Chinese lute

Crafting a pipa, 1908

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipes)

  1. barrel (especially a large one used to store cider or wine)
    Synonyms: barrica, bocói, carral
    • 1789, Xosefa Xovellanos, Proclamación de Carlos IV n'Uviedo‎[2] (poem):
      Averéme hácia les pipes
      Per donde el vino manaba
      I approached the barrels
      out of which wine gushed
  2. (by extension) what fits inside a barrel
  3. (colloquial) drunkenness
    Synonyms: enfile, borrachera
  4. water droplet
  5. tobacco pipe
    Synonym: cachumba

Borrowed from Spanish pipa, from Spanish pepita.

pipa f (plural pipes)

  1. sunflower seed

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipes)

  1. pipe, tobacco pipe
  2. pacifier
    Synonym: xumet
  3. Ganoderma lucidum, a red-coloured mushroom
  4. sunflower seed

pipa

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

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

pipa

  1. pipa (a type of Chinese lute)

pipa (dialectal)

  1. alternative form of pipo

pipa m (plural pipas)

  1. pipa (instrument)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).[1]

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. pipe, butt
  2. pipe, flute
    Synonym: pito
  3. tobacco pipe
    Synonym: cachimba
  1. ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “pipa”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Borrowed from Italian pipa, from French pipe.[1]

pipa (plural pipák)

  1. pipe (for smoking)
  2. tick, checkmark (✓)
    Coordinate term: (×) iksz

pipa (comparative pipább, superlative legpipább)

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

  2. ^ pipa in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

pipa (plural **pipa-pipa)

  1. pipe,
    1. a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications
      Synonyms: pembuluh, buluh-buluh
    2. a hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe
  2. chimney
    Synonym: cerobong

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipe)

  1. pipe
  2. (vulgar, slang) a wank

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pipa

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

pipa

  1. barrel

Borrowed from Sicilian pipa and/or Italian pipa.

pipa f (plural pipi)

  1. pipe (smoking implement)

pipa m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of pipe

pipa f (definite singular **pipa, indefinite plural piper or pipor, definite plural pipene or pipone)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pipe
  2. definite singular of pipe

pipa (present tense pip, past tense peip, supine pipe, past participle pipen, present participle pipande, imperative pip)

  1. alternative form of pipe

Old Galician-Portuguese

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. pipe (large container for storing liquids)
    • 1373, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:
      Item aqui en casa tres pipas et dous tonees et tres barrys grandes
      Item, here at home, three pipes and two tuns and three large barrels
  2. (music) pipe
    • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Agora leixa o Conto afalaꝛ deſto por cõtar a qrta batalla [Now the tale stops talking about that to tell about the fourth battle]” (chapter 155), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 67r:
      Et os hũus tãgiã cornos ⁊ os outͦs pipas. Et os q̃ eſtauã plos muros da vila. algũus dls deoſtauã ⁊ deꝢiã moyto mal aos de fora.
      [Et os ũus tangian cornos et os outros pipas. Et os que estavan perlos muros da vila, algũus deles deostavan e dezian moyto mal aos de fora.]
      And some played horns and others pipes, and of the ones that were by the walls of the town, some insulted and told many mean things to the ones outside.

Probably from French pipe or Italian pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa.

pipa f (diminutive pipka)

  1. pipette (small glass tube used for transferring liquid)
    Synonym: pipeta
  2. (colloquial, vulgar) minge
    Synonym: cipa
  3. (derogatory, vulgar) pussy, sissy (timid, unassertive or cowardly person)

Borrowed from Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

pipa f

  1. pipa (Chinese lute)

pipas (noun 1 sense 2)

pipas (noun 2 sense 1)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa (“pipe”), from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip, to pipe”).

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. pipe (wooden barrel, especially for wine)
    Synonym: barril
  2. (historical) pipe (traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume equal to 400–550 liters)
    Coordinate terms: almude (“1⁄25 pipa”), barril (“1⁄6 or 1⁄8 pipa”), tonel (“2 pipa”)
  3. truckload (volume of a tanker)

pipa f or (regional) m (plural pipas)

  1. (Brazil) kite (flying toy on a string)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pipa
    soltar pipa ― to fly a kite
Regional synonyms of pipa (“kite”)
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Dialect group Dialect Location Words
Brazilian Sertanejo Campo Grande pandorga, pipa, papagaio
Cuiabá pipa, pandorga, papagaio
Goiânia raia, pipa, papagaio
Amazofonia Belém papagaio, pipa, rabiola, cangula
Boa Vista papagaio, pipa, curica
Rio Branco papagaio, pipa, pepeta
Macapá papagaio, pipa, curica, rabiola, cangula
Manaus papagaio, pipa
Serra Amazônica Porto Velho papagaio, pipa
Baiano Salvador raia, pipa, papagaio
North Coast São Luís papagaio, pipa
Teresina papagaio, pipa
Fortaleza pipa, raia, papagaio
Brazilian Northeastern Aracaju pipa, raia, papagaio
João Pessoa pipa, papagaio, coruja
Maceió pipa, raia, papagaio
Natal pipa, papagaio, coruja
Recifense Recife pipa, papagaio
Brazilian Southern Curitiba pipa, raia, pandorga, papagaio
Florianopolitan Florianópolis pandorga, pipa, papagaio
Gaúcho Porto Alegre pandorga, pipa, papagaio
Carioca Rio de Janeiro pipa, papagaio
Fluminense Vitória pipa, raia, papagaio
Mineiro Belo Horizonte pipa, papagaio
Paulistano São Paulo pipa, papagaio, quadrado, peixinho, raia
This table shows various regional forms in the Portuguese language.

From pipă +‎ -a.

a pipa (third-person singular present pipează, past participle pipat) 1st conjugation

  1. to smoke a pipe

From Italian.

pȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏па)

  1. faucet, tap
    Synonyms: slàvina, špȋna, rubìnet

pípa f

  1. tap, faucet (device to dispense liquid)
Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing. pípa
gen. sing. pípe
singular dual plural
nominative(imenovȃlnik) pípa pípi pípe
genitive(rodȋlnik) pípe píp píp
dative(dajȃlnik) pípi pípama pípam
accusative(tožȋlnik) pípo pípi pípe
locative(mẹ̑stnik) pípi pípah pípah
instrumental(orọ̑dnik) pípo pípama pípami

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. pipe (device used for smoking)
    Synonym: cachimba
  2. barrel
    Synonyms: cuba, barril
  3. (colloquial) gun; shooter
  4. (Bolivia, Canary Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico) A protruding belly

pipa m or f by sense (plural pipas)

  1. (colloquial) roadie

pipa

  1. (colloquial) very good
    Synonym: estupendamente
    Se lo está pasando pipa.
    He's having a blast.

From pepita.

pipa m (plural pipas)

  1. (colloquial) a genius, a smart person

pipa f (plural pipas)

  1. (Spain) sunflower seed
    Synonym: pepita
  2. (Central America) green coconut
  3. (Canary Islands) pip, stone (seed inside fruits)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pipa

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

Borrowed from Portuguese pipa.[1]

pipa class V (plural mapipa class VI)

  1. barrel, cask

  2. ^ Baldi, Sergio (16 October 2023), Dictionary of Portuguese Loanwords in the Languages of Sub-Saharan Africa (Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture; 40), Leiden: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 237-238 Nr. 737

en pipa (noun sense 1)

en mus som röker pipa [a mouse smoking a pipe] (noun sense 1)

From Old Norse pípa. Doublet of pip.

pipa c

  1. a pipe (smoking tool)
    röka pipa
    smoke a pipe ["smoke **pipe**" – idiomatic, see _röka_]
  2. the barrel of a gun
    hälla krut i pipan
    pour gunpowder into the barrel
    stirra in i en gevärspipa
    stare down the barrel of a gun
    (literally, “stare into a rifle barrel”)
  3. the hollow tube of a bone
  4. (music) a pipe (wind instrument)
  5. a whistle (short for visselpipa)
    Domaren blåste i (vissel)pipan
    The referee blew his whistle
  6. (music) a pipe (of an organ)
    Synonym: orgelpipa (“organ pipe”)
  7. (slang) pipes (singing voice)
    Hon har en bra pipa
    She's got good pipes
    (literally, “She has a good pipe”)
  8. a pipa (type of Chinese lute)
  9. (historical) a pipe (an old unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 470 liters or 124 US gallons)

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

  1. to yield a high sound or tone; squeak, peep, beep
    Möss, fågelungar och datorer piper
    Mice squeak, baby birds peep, and computers beep

Conjugation of pipa (class 1 strong)

| | active | passive | | | | | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ---- | - | | infinitive | pipa | — | | | | supine | pipit | — | | | | imperative | pip | — | | | | _imper. plural_1 | pipen | — | | | | | present | past | present | past | | | indicative | piper | pep | — | — | | _ind. plural_1 | pipa | pepo | — | — | | _subjunctive_2 | pipe | pepe | — | — | | | | | | | | | present participle | pipande | | | | | past participle | — | | | |

From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

pipa f

  1. pipe

Compare Spanish pepita (“nugget”), Portuguese pevide (“flat seed”).

pipa f

  1. acorn

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

pipa f

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

pipa

  1. (literary) inflection of pipo:
    1. third-person singular present/future
    2. second-person singular imperative
  2. (colloquial) inflection of pipo:
    1. first-person singular future
    2. second-person singular imperative