parpar

Maltese

Root
p-r-p-r
1 term

Etymology

Probably derived from parta. Sense 2 is onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpar.par/

Verb

parpar (imperfect jparpar, past participle mparpar, verbal noun tparpir)

1. to go away, to make off
   • 1970, Anton Buttigieg, “Il-Pika”, in Fl-Arena:

     Il-għażla tar-rebbieħ
     kienet tqila bis-sħiħ,
     u Marzu Marzellu
     fetaħ ir-rixtellu,
     u tax-xita fir-raxx
     parpar baxx baxx.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. to coo

Conjugation

Conjugation of parpar

		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	parpart	parpart	parpar		parparna	parpartu	parpru
	f			parpret
imperfect	m	nparpar	tparpar	jparpar		nparpru	tparpru	jparpru
	f			tparpar
imperative			parpar				parpru

Spanish

Etymology

Onomatopoeic. Compare with Italian papero (“gosling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /paɾˈpaɾ/ [paɾˈpaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: par‧par

Verb

parpar (first-person singular present parpo, first-person singular preterite parpé, past participle parpado)

1. to quack

   Synonym: graznar

Conjugation

    Conjugation of parpar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			parpar
gerund			parpando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		parpado		parpada
		plural		parpados		parpadas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	parpo	parpastú parpásvos	parpa	parpamos	parpáis	parpan
	imperfect	parpaba	parpabas	parpaba	parpábamos	parpabais	parpaban
	preterite	parpé	parpaste	parpó	parpamos	parpasteis	parparon
	future	parparé	parparás	parpará	parparemos	parparéis	parparán
	conditional	parparía	parparías	parparía	parparíamos	parparíais	parparían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	parpe	parpestú parpésvos2	parpe	parpemos	parpéis	parpen
	imperfect (ra)	parpara	parparas	parpara	parpáramos	parparais	parparan
	imperfect (se)	parpase	parpases	parpase	parpásemos	parpaseis	parpasen
	future1	parpare	parpares	parpare	parpáremos	parpareis	parparen
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		parpatú parpávos	parpe	parpemos	parpad	parpen
	negative		no parpes	no parpe	no parpemos	no parpéis	no parpen

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Further reading

• “parpar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10