pap

See also: Pap and PAP

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæp/

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• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, Old French papa/pape, Latin pappa, Bulgarian папам (papam, “to eat”) and Serbo-Croatian папати/papati (“to eat”), among others. The relationships between these words are difficult to reconstruct. An (independent?) origin in imitative baby-talk, leading to constant reformation and renewal, is the best explanation in view of German Pappe (“pap, mush, porridge for children; sticky, mushy substance, paste, glue”), which fails to show the effects of the High German sound shift (no shifted form appears to be attested, making borrowing from Low German an unsatisfying explanation).

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (uncountable) Food in the form of a soft paste, often a porridge, especially as given to very young children.

   Pap can be made from bread boiled in milk or water.

2. (uncountable, colloquial) Nonsense.
3. (South Africa) Porridge.

   Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.

4. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.

   Treasury pap

5. The pulp of fruit.

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Translations

soft food

• Classical Nahuatl: tlaxcalātōlli
• Dutch: pap (nl) m or f
• Finnish: mössö (fi)
• Galician: papa (gl) f
• Georgian: ფაფა (papa)
• German: Brei (de) m
• Greek: νιανιά (el) n pl (nianiá)

• Italian: pappa (it) f
• Polish: papka (pl) f
• Russian: пюре́ (ru) n (pjuré)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: papa f

• Spanish: papilla (es) f
• Swedish: smörja (sv) c

colloquial: nonsense

• Finnish: potaska (fi), lööperi (fi), mössö (fi)

• Swedish: smörja (sv) c

porridge — see porridge

support from official patronage

• Finnish: tukiaiset pl

pulp of fruit

• Finnish: hedelmäliha (fi)

Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

1. (slang, South Africa) Spineless, wet, without character.
   • He is so pap and boring.

Translations

without character

• Finnish: nössö

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To feed with pap.

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Translations

to feed with pap

• Finnish: syöttää mössöä

Etymology 2

From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps form Latin papilla; or perhaps compare Old Swedish papp (“breast, nipple”), from Proto-Germanic *pap- (“nipple”), of imitative origin, or from Proto-Indo-European *pap- (“pock mark, nipple”); Swedish dialectal papp, pappe, Swedish patt, Danish patte, North Frisian pap, pape, papke (“breast, pap”).

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
   • Bible, Luke xi. 27

     the paps which thou hast sucked

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto XII:

     But th'other rather higher did arise, / And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, / And all, that might his melting hart entise / To her delights, she vnto him bewrayd […]

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.98:

     they doe not onely weare jewels at their noses, in their lip and cheekes, and in their toes, but also big wedges of gold through their paps [transl. tetins] and buttocks […].

2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 13, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Adrianus the Emperour made his Physition to marke and take the just compasse of the mortall place about his pap, that so his aime might not faile him, to whom he had given charge to kill him.

3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.

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Translations

female breast

• Finnish: tissi (fi), tisu (fi)

• Scottish Gaelic: cìoch f

Etymology 3

Shortened form of Pap smear from Georgios Papanikolaou, American physician.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. Pap smear

Etymology 4

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Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

1. (South African slang) Flat.

   I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

Etymology 5

Clipping of paparazzo.

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (informal) A paparazzo.
   • 2015, "Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments", OK! Magazine:

     As he made his way from the London hotel to his car, the singer threatened to beat up a pap who got in his way.

   • 2015, Mira Bailee, Broken Strings

     We turn back onto the main road and I'm relieved to not see any paps. They've got to be somewhere though. They don't just leave.

Verb

pap (third-person singular simple present paps, present participle papping, simple past and past participle papped)

1. (informal, usually passive) Of a paparazzo, to take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.

   Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!

Etymology 6

Noun

pap (plural paps)

1. (informal) pa; father
   • 1884, Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

     Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around. Well, about this time he was found in the river drowned, about twelve mile above town, so people said. They judged it was him, anyway; said this drowned man was just his size, and was ragged, and had uncommon long hair—which was all like pap—but they couldn't make nothing out of the face, because it had been in the water so long it warn't much like a face at all.

Anagrams

• APP, App, PPA, app, app.

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pɑːp]

Noun

pap (plural [please provide])

1. porridge

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Aromanian

Noun

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj)

1. grandfather
2. ancestor, forefather
3. old man

Synonyms

• (grandfather): ghiush, tot
• (old man): mosh, aush, bitãrnu

See also

• babã
• omã

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Danish

Noun

pap

1. cardboard

Declension

Declension of pap

neuter gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	pap	pappet
genitive	paps	pappets

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɑp/

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• Hyphenation: pap
• Rhymes: -ɑp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pappe.

Noun

pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

1. mush
2. porridge

Derived terms

• bloempap
• gortepap
• rijstepap

Etymology 2

Shorter form of papa, usually considered more grown-up, whereas papa is considered rather child-like.

Noun

pap m (uncountable, diminutive paps n)

1. (colloquial) Pa, dad

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

pap

1. first-person singular present indicative of pappen
2. imperative of pappen

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Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Slavic (probably from a South Slavic) language. Compare Bulgarian поп (pop), Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒp]

Noun

pap (plural papok)

1. priest (in Catholic terminology)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	pap	papok
accusative	papot	papokat
dative	papnak	papoknak
instrumental	pappal	papokkal
causal-final	papért	papokért
translative	pappá	papokká
terminative	papig	papokig
essive-formal	papként	papokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	papban	papokban
superessive	papon	papokon
adessive	papnál	papoknál
illative	papba	papokba
sublative	papra	papokra
allative	paphoz	papokhoz
elative	papból	papokból
delative	papról	papokról
ablative	paptól	papoktól

Possessive forms of pap
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	papom	papjaim
2nd person sing.	papod	papjaid
3rd person sing.	papja	papjai
1st person plural	papunk	papjaink
2nd person plural	papotok	papjaitok
3rd person plural	papjuk	papjaik

Derived terms

• papi
• papol
• papos
• papság

(Compound words):

• főpap
• paplak
• papnő

(Expressions):

• kinek a pap, kinek a papné

See also

• lelkész (Calvinist or Lutheran term)
• prédikátor (Calvinist term)
• pásztor (Calvinist term)
• lelkipásztor (Calvinist term)
• tiszteletes (Calvinist term)
• tisztelendő (Catholic or Lutheran term)
• plébános (Catholic term)
• atya

References

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Pohnpeian

Verb

pap

1. to swim

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Zazaki

Noun

pap (c)

1. popcorn