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p (upper case P)

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

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p

  1. (IPA) voiceless bilabial plosive
  2. (physics) pressure
  3. (music) piano (play softly)

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  • Letter styles

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

  • Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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p (lower case, upper case P, plural p's)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.
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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 2Edit

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  • (page, per): p.

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p

  1. post, meaning after
  2. page (plural pp)
  3. (Britain) 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.
  4. (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.
  5. (Internet) pretty (as an intensifier)
    I'm doing p good, how are you?
    • 1992 October 20, Peter Yee <yee atlas.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_morgan delphi.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!).
  6. Abbreviation of per.
  7. (physics) proton
TranslationsEdit
page

AzerbaijaniEdit

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p lower case (upper case P)

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

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DutchEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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  • Previous letter: o
  • Next letter: q

EgyptianEdit

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 m

  1. mat

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Declension of p (masculine)
singular p
dual pwj
plural pw

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 m

  1. plinth

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Declension of p (masculine)
singular p
dual pwj
plural pw

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 m./f. topo.

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

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EsperantoEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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FaroeseEdit

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p (upper case P)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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FinnishEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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AbbreviationEdit

p

  1. penni (Finnish penny, no longer used)

FulaEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

p

  1. Romanization of 𐍀

IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /p/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /pe/

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p (upper case P)

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

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ItalianEdit

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p m, f (invariable)

  1. See under P

LatinEdit

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p

  1. Publius
  2. populus

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p

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

ReferencesEdit

  • p in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • p in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

LatvianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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.

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P

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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LivonianEdit

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p (upper case P)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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MalayEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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NorwegianEdit

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p

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

PortugueseEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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RomanianEdit

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p (lowercase, capital P)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script. Representing the phoneme /p/. Preceded by o and followed by r.

Serbo-CroatianEdit

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  • (uppercase) P

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p (Cyrillic spelling п)

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

Skolt SamiEdit

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p (upper case P)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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SpanishEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

TurkishEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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TurkmenEdit

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p (upper case P)

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

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ZuluEdit

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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