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hapa

See also: Haapa, haapa, håpa, hāpa, and ha-pa

English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Hawaiian hapa, from English half.

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Noun

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hapa (plural hapas)

  1. (Hawaii, California) A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half East or Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander and half white.
    • 2016 August 8, Akemi Johnson, “Who Gets To Be 'Hapa'?”, in NPR‎[1]:
      It's what my fiancé and I call ourselves, and how we think of the children we might have: second-generation hapas.
      But as the term grows in popularity, so does debate over how it should be used. Some people argue that hapa is a slur and should be retired.
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Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hapa (plural hapas)

  1. A mesh cage-like structure placed in the water to hold fish.
    • 2015, M. Chakroff, P. Corps, Freshwater Fish Pond Culture and Management, page 148:
      Usually one female is placed into a hapa with two males to insure that fertilization occurs.

Hawaiian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English half.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈha.pa/, [ˈhɐ.pə]

Noun

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hapa

  1. half of something
  2. someone who has Hawaiian ancestry mixed with another ethnicity

Descendants

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  • → English: hapa

Ingrian

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Adjective

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hapa (comparative hapemp)

  1. Alternative form of hapan (“sour”)
    • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 103:
      Höö kantoivat hartijoil burdjukkoja — hapal maijool, airanaal täytettyjä säkkijä lampaan nahast.
      They carried burdjuks — sacks made of sheep skin filled with ayran, sour milk.

Declension

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Declension of hapa (type 3/kana, no gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative hapa hapat
genitive hapan happoin
partitive happaa hapoja
illative happaa happoi
inessive hapas hapois
elative hapast hapoist
allative hapalle hapoille
adessive hapal hapoil
ablative hapalt hapoilt
translative hapaks hapoiks
essive hapanna, happaan hapoinna, happoin
exessive1) hapant hapoint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

References

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  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 40

Maori

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English supper.

Noun

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hapa

  1. tea (meal)

References

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  • “hapa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Polish

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Noun

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hapa f

  1. (Lublin) Alternative form of gapa

Further reading

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  • Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “hapa”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 200

Sotho

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Verb

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hapa

  1. to win

Sundanese

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qapah. Cognate of Indonesian hampa.

Adjective

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hapa (Sundanese script ᮠᮕ)

  1. empty (of a grain of rice)
  2. sterile, infertile (of plants, rarely of animals and people

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Swahili

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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hapa

  1. pa class(XVI) inflected form of hii

Adverb

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hapa

  1. here

West Makian

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Adverb

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hapa

  1. like this, this way, thus

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics
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