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Translingual

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Symbol

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pap

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Papiamento.

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English pap. 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.

Noun

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pap (countable and uncountable, 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) Pablum or nonsense.
  3. (South Africa) Porridge.
    Pap and wors are traditionally eaten at a braai.
  4. (Nigeria, West Africa) A fermented cereal pudding made from corn, sorghum, or millet
  5. (informal, derogatory) Support from official patronage.
    Treasury pap
  6. The pulp of fruit.
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Verb

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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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Etymology 2

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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).

Noun

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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.
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Etymology 3

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Ellipsis of Pap smear.

Noun

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pap (plural paps)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Pap (Pap smear).

Etymology 4

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

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Adjective

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pap (comparative more pap, superlative most pap)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Weak, feeble; lacking substance.
    • 1975, Sheila Roberts, Outside Life's Feast: Short Stories, Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, →ISBN, page 27:
      His chest hangs like soft tits in his vest. He is pap. I could easily hit him. I could kill him if I wanted to.
  2. (South Africa, slang) Spineless, wet, without character.
    He is so pap and boring.
  3. (South Africa, slang) Flat.
    I got a puncture and the wheel went pap.
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Etymology 5

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Clipping of paparazzo.

Noun

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pap (plural paps)

  1. (informal) Clipping of paparazzo.
    • 2015, “Justin Bieber's top 10's worst moments”, in 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.
    • 2023 January 17, Tina Brown, “Spare by Prince Harry review – magical thinking in Montecito”, in The Guardian[1]:
      The only aspect of his mother’s death that he finds unforgettable is the identity of those who caused it: the press and the paps, variously referred to as ghouls, pustules, dogs, weasels, idiots and sadists, who after “torturing” his mother “would come for me”.

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

  1. (informal, usually passive voice) To take a surreptitious photograph of (someone, especially a celebrity) without their consent.
    Look, that pop star’s been papped in her bikini again!
    • 2023 June 16, Daisy Jones, “Cool, sexy and stinking of smoke: why are TV dramas giving cigarettes a comeback?”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
      The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, 20-year-old Jenna Ortega (another Gen Z actor) was recently papped holding an iPhone and chuffing on a straight cigarette (the fact that this was a pap photo is all the more throwback).

Etymology 6

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Compare pa, papa, pop.

Noun

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pap (plural paps)

  1. (informal) Pa; father.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus: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.

Etymology 7

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Verb

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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).
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  • Indonesian: pap

References

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

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch pap, from Middle Dutch pappe.

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Noun

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pap (uncountable)

  1. porridge

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Aromanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin pappus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πάππος(pàppos).

Noun

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pap m (plural pachi or pãpãnj/pãpenj)

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

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Deverbal from papar.

Noun

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pap m (plural paps)

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

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Danish

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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pap n (singular definite pappet, plural indefinite papper)

  1. cardboard

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Dutch pappe.

Noun

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pap m (plural pappen, diminutive papje n)

  1. mush
  2. porridge
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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pap m (uncountable, diminutive paps n)

  1. (colloquial) pa, dad

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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pap

  1. inflection of pappen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Hungarian

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 pap (hivatás) on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

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

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Noun

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pap (plural papok)

  1. priest (in Catholic terminology)

Declension

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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

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  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.)

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

Indonesian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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pap

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

Verb

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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 voice) to take a picture of someone, usually surreptitiously and without their consent.

Usage notes

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French papa and Medieval Latin papo.

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Noun

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pap (uncountable)

  1. A gruel or porridge; baby food

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Pohnpeian

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pap

  1. to swim

Polish

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Noun

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pap f

  1. genitive plural of papa

Romanian

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Pronunciation

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pap

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

Sumerian

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Romanization

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pap

  1. Romanization of 𒉽 (pap)

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Noun

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pap (c)

  1. popcorn