Wiktionary

pap

See also: Pap and PAP

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /pæp/
  • Audio (AU)
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  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1Edit

Origins unclear. Related to Middle Low German pappe, Dutch pap, German Pappe (“pap, porridge; wheatpaste; cardboard”), 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. The Germanic word is either a borrowing from Latin or, perhaps more probably, an independent formation in baby-talk.

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; pablum.
  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
porridge — see porridge

VerbEdit

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

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

Etymology 2Edit

From Middle English pappe, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from 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. (archaic) A female breast or nipple. [from 13th c.]
  2. (now rare, archaic) A man's breast. [from 15th c.]
  3. A rounded, nipple-like hill or peak.
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 3Edit

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

NounEdit

pap (plural paps)

  1. Pap smear

Etymology 4Edit

From Afrikaans pap (“porridge”).[1] Cognate with etymology 1.

AdjectiveEdit

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
    He is so pap and boring.
  2. (South Africa, slang) Flat.
    I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 5Edit

Clipping of 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

Compare pa, papa, pop.

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.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:father

Etymology 7Edit

VerbEdit

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

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of PAP (“post a picture”).

DescendantsEdit

  • → Indonesian: pap

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ pap, adjective in the Dictionary of South African English, Rhodes University.

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch pap, from Middle Dutch pappe.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pap (uncountable)

  1. porridge

ReferencesEdit

AromanianEdit

NounEdit

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj/pãpenj)

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

SynonymsEdit

See alsoEdit

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From papar.

NounEdit

pap m (plural paps)

  1. crop, craw
    Synonym: gavatx
  2. double chin
    Synonym: papada
  3. belly
    Synonym: panxa

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From German Pappe, from Middle High German pappe (“porridge, mush”), a common nursery word for "porridge", compare Upper German Papp, English pap, Latin pappa, pāpa (“an infant's cry for food”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pap n (singular definite pappet, plural indefinite papper)

  1. cardboard

InflectionEdit

Declension of pap
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative pap pappet papper papperne
genitive paps pappets pappers pappernes

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch pappe.

NounEdit

pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

  1. mush
  2. porridge
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
  • Afrikaans: pap
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: pap
  • Jersey Dutch: pap
  • → Papiamentu: papa

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

pap m (uncountable, diminutive paps n)

  1. (colloquial) Pa, dad

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

pap

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

HungarianEdit

 pap (hivatás) on Hungarian Wikipedia

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from a Slavic (probably from a South Slavic) language. Compare Bulgarian поп (pop), Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop).[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pap (plural papok)

  1. priest (in Catholic terminology)

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
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		papé papoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		papéi papokéi
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

Compound words
Expressions

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ pap in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further readingEdit

  • pap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

IndonesianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English pap (sense 7, but likely also from sense 5).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

pap (first-person possessive papku, second-person possessive papmu, third-person possessive papnya)

  1. (slang) A picture obtained as a result of pap.

VerbEdit

pap

  1. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture (especially a photograph), usually as proof of something.
  2. (Internet slang, usually imperative) to take/send/post a picture of oneself with their background location visible and/or to take/send/post a picture of a location (in which one is currently in), especially (as proof) to show where one currently is.
  3. (slang) to take a picture of something.
  4. (slang) to take/send a picture of oneself, especially of their sexual body parts; to send a nude
  5. (slang, usually active) to take a picture of someone, usually surreptitiously and without their consent.

Usage notesEdit

PohnpeianEdit

VerbEdit

pap

  1. to swim

RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

pap

  1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of păpa

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

pap

  1. Romanization of 𒉽 (pap)

ZazakiEdit

NounEdit

pap (c)

  1. popcorn
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