p

See also P, and Appendix:Variations of "p"

Translingual

Unicode name	LATIN SMALL LETTER P
Codepoint	U+0070
o ← Basic Latin → q

Wikipedia

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter P):  Ṕṕ  Ṗṗ  Ᵽᵽ  Ƥƥ  P̃p̃  ᵱ  ᶈ  ᴘ  Ｐｐ  ȹ
• With hook: ƥ
• ƿ (wynn)

Other representations of P:

• Letter styles
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  Capital and lowercase versions of P, in normal and italic type

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  Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

Pronunciation

• IPA

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Symbol

Wikipedia

p

1. (IPA) voiceless bilabial plosive.

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English

Etymology 1

Letter

p lowercase (uppercase P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) letter; Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

Number

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• (page): p.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pʰiː/, X-SAMPA: /pi:/

• Audio (US)

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Abbreviation

p

1. post, meaning after
2. Music symbol for piano (play softly)
3. page (plural pp)
4. (UK) penny; pence.
   • 2001, Steve Webb, Intensity-modulated radiation therapy

     The 25p stamp shows an ultrasound image, the 35p stamp shows a magnetic resonance image and the 41p stamp shows an X-ray CT image.

5. (knitting) purl
   • 1855, Godey's Magazine (volume 51, page 71)

     Knit 3, p 1, k 2, purl 1, k 2, m 1, k 2 together, k 1.

6. (Internet) pretty (as an intensifier)

   I'm doing p good, how are you?

   • 1992 October 20, Peter Yee <yeeatlas.arc.nasa.gov>, "NASA Daily News for 10/13/92 (Forwarded)", message-ID <1992Oct20.091605.29223@news.arc.nasa.gov>, sci.space.news, Usenet [1]:

     The searches will use radio telescope antennas to "listen" to stars for non-random radio noise P much like someone tuning a radio listens for a station between the static.

   • 1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgandelphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet [2]:

     There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole^[sic] think SU27 is p bad!).

Translations

page

• Scottish Gaelic: td (gd)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: looked · head · called · #186: p · Lord · de · whole

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Azeri

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) hərf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Əə, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Xx, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Qq, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː
• (letter name): IPA: /peː/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

• Previous letter: o
• Next letter: q

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Egyptian

Noun

masculine

1. mat

Inflection

Declension
sing.	p
dual	pwj
plural	pw

Noun

masculine

1. plinth

Inflection

Declension
sing.	p
dual	pwj
plural	pw

Proper noun

feminine

1. Pe, a city in Lower Egypt, where the Pharaohs were crowned.

References

Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The twentieth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called po or pa and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) litero; Aa, Bb, Cc, Ĉĉ, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ĝĝ, Hh, Ĥĥ, Ii, Jj, Ĵĵ, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Ŝŝ, Tt, Uu, Ŭŭ, Vv, Zz

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Abbreviation

p

1. penni (Finnish penny, no longer used)

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Italian

Noun

p m, f (invariable)

1. See under P

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Latin

Abbreviation

p

1. Publius
2. populus

Letter

p

1. A letter of the Latin alphabet.

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Latvian

Wikipedia ^lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [p]

Letter

P

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called pē and written in the Latin script.

See also

• Letters of the Latvian alphabet:

  burti: Aa, Āā, Bb, Cc, Čč, Dd, Ee, Ēē, Ff, Gg, Ģģ, Hh, Ii, Īī, Jj, Kk, Ķķ, Ll, Ļļ, Mm, Nn, Ņņ, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Šš, Tt, Uu, Ūū, Vv, Zz, Žž

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Malay

Letter

p

1. The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

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Norwegian

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /peː/
• (phoneme): IPA: /p/

Letter

p

1. The 16th letter of the Norwegian alphabet.

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Portuguese

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Portuguese alphabet, called pê and written in the Latin script.
   • 2003, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), Rocco, page 75:

     Não o perdoou por abandonar o serviço em vez de seguir você.

     She didn't forgive him for abandoning his service instead of following you.

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /pe/

Letter

p (lowercase, capital P)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet representing the phoneme /p/. Preceded by o and followed by r.

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Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (uppercase) P

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA: /p/

Letter

p (Cyrillic spelling п)

1. The 22nd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by o and followed by r.

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Spanish

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The 17th letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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Turkish

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The twentieth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin script letters) harf; Aa, Bb, Cc, Çç, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Ğğ, Hh, Iı, İi, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Öö, Pp, Rr, Ss, Şş, Tt, Uu, Üü, Vv, Yy, Zz