pap

See also: Pap and PAP

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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /pæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1Edit

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).

NounEdit

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)

TranslationsEdit

soft food

• Classical Nahuatl: tlaxcalātōlli
• Dutch: pap (nl) m, 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)

AdjectiveEdit

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

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

TranslationsEdit

without character

• Finnish: nössö

VerbEdit

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

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)

TranslationsEdit

to feed with pap

• Finnish: syöttää mössöä

Etymology 2Edit

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”).

NounEdit

pap (plural paps)

1. (now 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, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, 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, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , II.13:

     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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Macaulay to this entry?)

TranslationsEdit

female breast

• Finnish: tissi (fi), tisu (fi)

• Scottish Gaelic: cìoch f

Etymology 3Edit

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

NounEdit

pap (plural paps)

1. Pap smear

Etymology 4Edit

AdjectiveEdit

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

1. (South African slang) Flat.

   I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

Etymology 5Edit

From paparazzo.

NounEdit

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.

VerbEdit

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 6Edit

NounEdit

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.

AnagramsEdit

• APP, App, app, app.

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AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [pɑːp]

NounEdit

pap (plural [please provide])

1. porridge

ReferencesEdit

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

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AromanianEdit

NounEdit

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj)

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

SynonymsEdit

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

See alsoEdit

• babã
• omã

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

pap

1. cardboard

DeclensionEdit

Declension of pap

neuter gender	Singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	pap	pappet
genitive	paps	pappets

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DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ɑp

NounEdit

pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

1. mush
2. porridge

Derived termsEdit

• gortepap

VerbEdit

pap

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

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HungarianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop, “priest”), or from Romanian popă

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɒp]

NounEdit

pap (plural papok)

1. priest

DeclensionEdit

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 termsEdit

• papi
• papol
• papos
• papság

(Compound words):

• főpap
• paplak
• papnő

ReferencesEdit

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PohnpeianEdit

VerbEdit

pap

1. to swim