Wiktionary

hapah

Ainu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Nivkh ӿаваф (havaf).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

hapah (Kana spelling ハパㇵ, possessed form hapapuhu)

  1. (dialectal, Sakhalin, anatomy) lungs
    Synonym: yukram

References edit

  1. ^ Vovin, Alexander V. (2016) “On the Linguistic Prehistory of Hokkaidō”, in Gruzdeva Ekaterina, Janhunen Juha, editors, Crosslinguistics and Linguistic Crossings in Northeast Asia. Papers on the Languages of Sakhalin and Adjacent Regions (Studia Orientalia; 117), Helsinki, pages 29–38.
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