pap

See also: Pap and PAP

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pæp/
  • 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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Ainsworth to this entry?)
Translations

Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

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

Verb

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?)
Translations

Etymology 2

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

Etymology 3

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

Noun

pap (plural paps)

  1. Pap smear

Etymology 4

Adjective

pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

  1. (South African slang) Flat.
    I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.

Etymology 5

From 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!

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pɑːp]

Noun

pap (plural [please provide])

  1. porridge

References

Aromanian

Noun

pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj)

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

Synonyms

See also

Danish

Noun

pap

  1. cardboard

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -ɑp

Noun

pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

  1. mush
  2. porridge

Derived terms

Verb

pap

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

Hungarian

Etymology

From a Slavic language, compare Serbo-Croatian pop, Russian поп (pop, “priest”), or from Romanian popă [1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɒp]

Noun

pap (plural papok)

  1. priest

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

(Compound words):

References

  1. ↑ 'popă' in August Scriban, 'Dicționaru limbii românești', Editura Institutului de Arte Grafice „Presa Bună”, Bucharest, 1939

Pohnpeian

Verb

pap

  1. to swim
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