попъ

Old Church Slavonic

попъ

Etymology

From Ancient Greek παπᾶς (papâs), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

Noun

попъ • (popŭ) m

1. (Christianity) priest
   • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 589-591:

     бо и въ лѣности живѫтъ правовѣрьнии попове, ꙗкоже то вꙑ глаголѥте осѫждаѭще ѩ, нъ божьства не хоулѧтъ ꙗкоже вꙑ.

     bo i vŭ lěnosti živǫtŭ pravověrĭnii popove, jakože to vy glagoljete osǫždajǫšte ję, nŭ božĭstva ne xulętŭ jakože vy.

     Even if orthodox priests lead idle lives, as you say when you condemn them, still they do not blaspheme the divinity as you do.

   • from the Homily against the Bogumils, 1452-1456:

     како бо хотѧтъ христиꙗне сѧ нарицати, не имѣѭще крьстѧщиихъ ѩ поповъ, ни самого знамениꙗ брѣгѫще крьстнаѥго, ни еѵхии поповьскꙑихъ поѭще, ни поповъ чьстьнꙑ творѧще

     kako bo xotętŭ xristijane sę naricati, ne imějǫšte krĭstęštiixŭ ję popovŭ, ni samogo znamenija brěgǫšte krĭstnajego, ni eüxii popovĭskyixŭ pojǫšte, ni popovŭ čĭstĭny tvoręšte

     How can they claim to call themselves Christians, when they have no priests to baptize, when they do not make the sign of the cross, they do not write down the priests’ prayers and do not honour priests?

Synonyms

• свѧщеникъ (svęštenikŭ)

Derived terms

• попьство (popĭstvo)

Descendants

• Bulgarian: поп (pop)
• Serbo-Croatian: поп
• Russian: поп (pop), попъ (pop) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
  • → Kildin Sami: поа̄һп (pååhp)
  • → Komi-Zyrian: поп (pop)
• Finnic:
  • → Estonian: papp
  • → Finnish: pappi
  • → Ingrian: pappi
• → Skolt Sami: papp
• Non-Slavic:
  • → Romanian: popă (possibly)

Old Ruthenian

Alternative forms

• пупъ (pup) — Middle Ukrainian
• попь (popʹ), попа (popa), попо (popo), попоу (popu) — alternative spelling

Etymology

Inherited from Old East Slavic попъ (popŭ). Cognate with Russian поп (pop).

Noun

попъ • (pop) m pers (related adjective поповский or поповъ)

1. (Christianity) priest

Derived terms

• попи́нъ (popín)
• попо́вство (popóvstvo)
• попо́вичъ (popóvič, “son of a priest”)
• попо́вна (popóvna, “daughter of a priest”)

Descendants

• Belarusian: поп (pop)
• Carpathian Rusyn: пуп (pup)
• Ukrainian: піп (pip); пуп (pup) (dialectal)

Further reading

• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “попа”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 194
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “попоу”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 196
• Hrynchyshyn, D. H., editor (1978), “попъ, попь, попо, пупъ”, in Словник староукраїнської мови XIV–XV ст. [Dictionary of the Old Ukrainian Language of the 14ᵗʰ–15ᵗʰ cc.] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Н – Ѳ), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 19
• Bulyka, A. M., editor (2006), “попъ”, in Гістарычны слоўнік беларускай мовы [Historical Dictionary of the Belarusian Language] (in Belarusian), numbers 26 (позней – поробтати), Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, →ISBN, page 419