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From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos.
pipa (plural pipas)
- A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.
Chinese lute
Chinese:
Cantonese: 琵琶 (yue) (pei4 paa4; pei4 paa4-2)
Mandarin: 琵琶 (zh) (pípa)Kazakh: пипа (pipa)
Korean: 비파(琵琶) (bipa)
Manchu: ᡶᡳᡶᠠᠨ (fifan)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: tì bà
Crafting a pipa, 1908
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).
pipa f (plural pipes)
- 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
- 1789, Xosefa Xovellanos, Proclamación de Carlos IV n'Uviedo[2] (poem):
- (by extension) what fits inside a barrel
- (colloquial) drunkenness
Synonyms: enfile, borrachera - water droplet
- tobacco pipe
Synonym: cachumba
Borrowed from Spanish pipa, from Spanish pepita.
pipa f (plural pipes)
- “pipa”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
- Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “pipa”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).
pipa f (plural pipes)
- pipe, tobacco pipe
- pacifier
Synonym: xumet - Ganoderma lucidum, a red-coloured mushroom
- sunflower seed
“pipa”, 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
“pipa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pipa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
pipa
- inflection of pipar:
pipa
- pipa (a type of Chinese lute)
pipa (dialectal)
- alternative form of pipo
pipa m (plural pipas)
- pipa (instrument)
- “pipa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).[1]
pipa f (plural pipas)
- pipote
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pipa”, 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), “pipa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pipa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
- ^ 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)
pipa (comparative pipább, superlative legpipább)
(colloquial, predicatively) angry, furious
Nagyon pipa vagyok rád. ― I'm very angry with you.^ 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 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.
- From Malay pipa (“barrel, cask, chimney”), from Portuguese pipa (“cask”), from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).
- The sense “pipe” is a semantic loan from Dutch pijp.
- IPA(key): [ˈpipa]
- Hyphenation: pi‧pa
pipa (plural **pipa-pipa)
- pipe,
- a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications
Synonyms: pembuluh, buluh-buluh - 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
- a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications
- chimney
Synonym: cerobong
“pipa”, 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
Rhymes: -ipa
Hyphenation: pì‧pa
From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).
pipa f (plural pipe)
- → Czech: pípa
- → German: Pipe
- → Greek: πίπα (pípa)
- → Hungarian: pipa
- → Romanian: pipă
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic script: пипа
Latin script: pipa - → Slovak: pipa
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
pipa
- inflection of pipare:
pipa
Borrowed from Sicilian pipa and/or Italian pipa.
pipa f (plural pipi)
- pipe (smoking implement)
pipa m or f
pipa f (definite singular **pipa, indefinite plural piper or pipor, definite plural pipene or pipone)
pipa (present tense pip, past tense peip, supine pipe, past participle pipen, present participle pipande, imperative pip)
- 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)
- 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
- 1373, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:
- (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.
- 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:
- Galician: pipa
- Portuguese: pipa (see there for further descendants)
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pipa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “pipa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “pipa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- IPA(key): /ˈpi.pa/
- Rhymes: -ipa
- Syllabification: pi‧pa
Probably from French pipe or Italian pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa.
pipa f (diminutive pipka)
- pipette (small glass tube used for transferring liquid)
Synonym: pipeta - (colloquial, vulgar) minge
Synonym: cipa - (derogatory, vulgar) pussy, sissy (timid, unassertive or cowardly person)
Borrowed from Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).
pipa f
- pipa (Chinese lute)
- “pipa”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- “pipa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN[4] (in Polish)
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”).
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- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈpi.pa/
Rhymes: -ipɐ
Hyphenation: pi‧pa
pipa f (plural pipas)
- pipe (wooden barrel, especially for wine)
Synonym: barril - (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”) - truckload (volume of a tanker)
→ Bengali: পিপা (pipa)
→ Gujarati: પીપ (pīp)
→ Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)
Hindi: पीपा (pīpā)
Urdu: پِیپا (pīpā)→ Malayalam: പീപ്പ (pīppa)
→ Marathi: पीप (pīp)
→ Swahili: pipa
→ Telugu: పీపా (pīpā)
→ Tulu: ಪೀಪ (pīpa)
pipa f or (regional) m (plural pipas)
- (Brazil) kite (flying toy on a string)
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pipa
soltar pipa ― to fly a kite
- “pipa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “pipa”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
- “pipa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “pipa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “pipa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
a pipa (third-person singular present pipează, past participle pipat) 1st conjugation
- to smoke a pipe
From Italian.
pȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏па)
- “pipa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
- IPA(key): /pìːpa/
pípa f
| 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)
- pipe (device used for smoking)
Synonym: cachimba - barrel
Synonyms: cuba, barril - (colloquial) gun; shooter
- (Bolivia, Canary Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico) A protruding belly
pipa m or f by sense (plural pipas)
→ Basque: pipa
pipa
- (colloquial) very good
Synonym: estupendamente
Se lo está pasando pipa.
He's having a blast.
From pepita.
pipa m (plural pipas)
- (colloquial) a genius, a smart person
pipa f (plural pipas)
- (Spain) sunflower seed
Synonym: pepita - (Central America) green coconut
- (Canary Islands) pip, stone (seed inside fruits)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
pipa
- inflection of pipar:
- “pipa”, 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
- “pipa”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010
- “pipa”, 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
Borrowed from Portuguese pipa.[1]
pipa class V (plural mapipa class VI)
^ 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
- a pipe (smoking tool)
röka pipa
smoke a pipe ["smoke **pipe**" – idiomatic, see _röka_] - 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”) - the hollow tube of a bone
- (music) a pipe (wind instrument)
- a whistle (short for visselpipa)
Domaren blåste i (vissel)pipan
The referee blew his whistle - (music) a pipe (of an organ)
Synonym: orgelpipa (“organ pipe”) - (slang) pipes (singing voice)
Hon har en bra pipa
She's got good pipes
(literally, “She has a good pipe”) - a pipa (type of Chinese lute)
- (historical) a pipe (an old unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 470 liters or 124 US gallons)
dansa efter någons pipa (“dance to someone's tune”)
glasblåsarpipa (“glassblower pipe”)
kritpipa (“smoking pipe made of clay”)
orgelpipa (“organ pipe”)
piprensare (“smoking pipe cleaner wire”)
piptobak (“pipe tobacco”)
säckpipa (“bagpipe”)
→ Finnish: piippu
- → Ingrian: piippu
flöjt (“flute”)
pipa (present piper, preterite pep, supine pipit, imperative pip)
- 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 | — | | | |
- pip
- pipare
- pipljud
- “pipa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “pipa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “pipa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).
pipa f
Compare Spanish pepita (“nugget”), Portuguese pevide (“flat seed”).
pipa f
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
pipa f
- circumflex (diacritic)
- háček (diacritic)
- “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
- pipaf (first person singular future)
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪpa/
pipa
- (literary) inflection of pipo:
- (colloquial) inflection of pipo: