pipa

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Alternative forms

• p'i-p'a (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos.

Noun

pipa (plural pipas)

1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

Translations

Chinese lute

• Catalan: pipa (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 琵琶 (yue) (pei⁴ paa⁴; pei⁴ paa^4-2)

  Mandarin: 琵琶 (zh) (pípa)

• Finnish: pipa (fi)
• Japanese: 琵琶 (ja) (biwa, biba), ピーパー (pīpā)
• Kazakh: пипа (pıypa)
• Korean: 비파(琵琶) (bipa)
• Manchu: ᡶᡳᡶᠠᠨ (fifan)
• Polish: pipa (pl) f
• Russian: пи́па (ru) f (pípa)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: tì bà

Anagrams

• IPPA, PAPI

Asturian

Crafting a pipa, 1908

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/ [ˈpi.pa]
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f (plural pipes)

1. barrel (especially a large one used to store cider or wine)

   Synonyms: barrica, bocói, carral

   • 1789, Xosefa Xovellanos, Proclamación de Carlos IV n'Uviedo‎^[2] (poem):

     Averéme hácia les pipes
     Per donde el vino manaba

     I approached the barrels
     out of which wine gushed

2. (by extension) what fits inside a barrel
3. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: enfile, borrachera

4. water droplet
5. tobacco pipe

   Synonym: cachumba

Derived terms

• pipar
• pipote
• pipu
• empipar
• pipada
• piparadina
• pipera
• piperu
• pipiolu

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish pipa, from Spanish pepita.

Noun

pipa f (plural pipes)

1. sunflower seed

References

• “pipa”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “pipa”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central) [ˈpi.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈpi.pa]

Noun

pipa f (plural pipes)

1. pipe, tobacco pipe
2. pacifier

   Synonym: xumet

3. Ganoderma lucidum, a red-coloured mushroom
4. sunflower seed

Derived terms

• empipar
• fer la pipa
• pipa de gira-sol
• pipa de Surinam
• pipa llarga
• pipada
• pipar
• pipeta

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “pipa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pipa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Etymology 2

Verb

pipa

1. inflection of pipar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipɑ/, [ˈpipɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ipɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧pa
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧pa

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

Noun

pipa

1. pipa (a type of Chinese lute)

Declension

Inflection of pipa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		pipa	pipat
genitive		pipan	pipojen
partitive		pipaa	pipoja
illative		pipaan	pipoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pipa	pipat
accusative	nom.	pipa	pipat
	gen.	pipan
genitive		pipan	pipojen pipain rare
partitive		pipaa	pipoja
inessive		pipassa	pipoissa
elative		pipasta	pipoista
illative		pipaan	pipoihin
adessive		pipalla	pipoilla
ablative		pipalta	pipoilta
allative		pipalle	pipoille
essive		pipana	pipoina
translative		pipaksi	pipoiksi
abessive		pipatta	pipoitta
instructive		—	pipoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of pipa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative pipani pipani accusative nom. pipani pipani gen. pipani genitive pipani pipojeni pipaini rare partitive pipaani pipojani inessive pipassani pipoissani elative pipastani pipoistani illative pipaani pipoihini adessive pipallani pipoillani ablative pipaltani pipoiltani allative pipalleni pipoilleni essive pipanani pipoinani translative pipakseni pipoikseni abessive pipattani pipoittani instructive — — comitative — pipoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative pipasi pipasi accusative nom. pipasi pipasi gen. pipasi genitive pipasi pipojesi pipaisi rare partitive pipaasi pipojasi inessive pipassasi pipoissasi elative pipastasi pipoistasi illative pipaasi pipoihisi adessive pipallasi pipoillasi ablative pipaltasi pipoiltasi allative pipallesi pipoillesi essive pipanasi pipoinasi translative pipaksesi pipoiksesi abessive pipattasi pipoittasi instructive — — comitative — pipoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative pipamme pipamme accusative nom. pipamme pipamme gen. pipamme genitive pipamme pipojemme pipaimme rare partitive pipaamme pipojamme inessive pipassamme pipoissamme elative pipastamme pipoistamme illative pipaamme pipoihimme adessive pipallamme pipoillamme ablative pipaltamme pipoiltamme allative pipallemme pipoillemme essive pipanamme pipoinamme translative pipaksemme pipoiksemme abessive pipattamme pipoittamme instructive — — comitative — pipoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative pipanne pipanne accusative nom. pipanne pipanne gen. pipanne genitive pipanne pipojenne pipainne rare partitive pipaanne pipojanne inessive pipassanne pipoissanne elative pipastanne pipoistanne illative pipaanne pipoihinne adessive pipallanne pipoillanne ablative pipaltanne pipoiltanne allative pipallenne pipoillenne essive pipananne pipoinanne translative pipaksenne pipoiksenne abessive pipattanne pipoittanne instructive — — comitative — pipoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative pipansa pipansa accusative nom. pipansa pipansa gen. pipansa genitive pipansa pipojensa pipainsa rare partitive pipaansa pipojaan pipojansa inessive pipassaan pipassansa pipoissaan pipoissansa elative pipastaan pipastansa pipoistaan pipoistansa illative pipaansa pipoihinsa adessive pipallaan pipallansa pipoillaan pipoillansa ablative pipaltaan pipaltansa pipoiltaan pipoiltansa allative pipalleen pipallensa pipoilleen pipoillensa essive pipanaan pipanansa pipoinaan pipoinansa translative pipakseen pipaksensa pipoikseen pipoiksensa abessive pipattaan pipattansa pipoittaan pipoittansa instructive — — comitative — pipoineen pipoinensa

Etymology 2

Noun

pipa (dialectal)

1. alternative form of pipo

Declension

Inflection of pipa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)
nominative		pipa	pipat
genitive		pipan	pipojen
partitive		pipaa	pipoja
illative		pipaan	pipoihin
		singular	plural
nominative		pipa	pipat
accusative	nom.	pipa	pipat
	gen.	pipan
genitive		pipan	pipojen pipain rare
partitive		pipaa	pipoja
inessive		pipassa	pipoissa
elative		pipasta	pipoista
illative		pipaan	pipoihin
adessive		pipalla	pipoilla
ablative		pipalta	pipoilta
allative		pipalle	pipoille
essive		pipana	pipoina
translative		pipaksi	pipoiksi
abessive		pipatta	pipoitta
instructive		—	pipoin
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of pipa (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative pipani pipani accusative nom. pipani pipani gen. pipani genitive pipani pipojeni pipaini rare partitive pipaani pipojani inessive pipassani pipoissani elative pipastani pipoistani illative pipaani pipoihini adessive pipallani pipoillani ablative pipaltani pipoiltani allative pipalleni pipoilleni essive pipanani pipoinani translative pipakseni pipoikseni abessive pipattani pipoittani instructive — — comitative — pipoineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative pipasi pipasi accusative nom. pipasi pipasi gen. pipasi genitive pipasi pipojesi pipaisi rare partitive pipaasi pipojasi inessive pipassasi pipoissasi elative pipastasi pipoistasi illative pipaasi pipoihisi adessive pipallasi pipoillasi ablative pipaltasi pipoiltasi allative pipallesi pipoillesi essive pipanasi pipoinasi translative pipaksesi pipoiksesi abessive pipattasi pipoittasi instructive — — comitative — pipoinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative pipamme pipamme accusative nom. pipamme pipamme gen. pipamme genitive pipamme pipojemme pipaimme rare partitive pipaamme pipojamme inessive pipassamme pipoissamme elative pipastamme pipoistamme illative pipaamme pipoihimme adessive pipallamme pipoillamme ablative pipaltamme pipoiltamme allative pipallemme pipoillemme essive pipanamme pipoinamme translative pipaksemme pipoiksemme abessive pipattamme pipoittamme instructive — — comitative — pipoinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative pipanne pipanne accusative nom. pipanne pipanne gen. pipanne genitive pipanne pipojenne pipainne rare partitive pipaanne pipojanne inessive pipassanne pipoissanne elative pipastanne pipoistanne illative pipaanne pipoihinne adessive pipallanne pipoillanne ablative pipaltanne pipoiltanne allative pipallenne pipoillenne essive pipananne pipoinanne translative pipaksenne pipoiksenne abessive pipattanne pipoittanne instructive — — comitative — pipoinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative pipansa pipansa accusative nom. pipansa pipansa gen. pipansa genitive pipansa pipojensa pipainsa rare partitive pipaansa pipojaan pipojansa inessive pipassaan pipassansa pipoissaan pipoissansa elative pipastaan pipastansa pipoistaan pipoistansa illative pipaansa pipoihinsa adessive pipallaan pipallansa pipoillaan pipoillansa ablative pipaltaan pipaltansa pipoiltaan pipoiltansa allative pipalleen pipallensa pipoilleen pipoillensa essive pipanaan pipanansa pipoinaan pipoinansa translative pipakseen pipaksensa pipoikseen pipoiksensa abessive pipattaan pipattansa pipoittaan pipoittansa instructive — — comitative — pipoineen pipoinensa

Anagrams

• appi

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

pipa m (plural pipas)

1. pipa (instrument)

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/ [ˈpi.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe, butt
2. pipe, flute

   Synonym: pito

3. tobacco pipe

   Synonym: cachimba

Derived terms

• pipote

References

• Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “pipa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “pipa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pipa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pipa, from French pipe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpipɒ]
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

Noun

pipa (plural pipák)

1. pipe (for smoking)
2. tick, checkmark (✓)

   Coordinate term: (×) iksz

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	pipa	pipák
accusative	pipát	pipákat
dative	pipának	pipáknak
instrumental	pipával	pipákkal
causal-final	pipáért	pipákért
translative	pipává	pipákká
terminative	pipáig	pipákig
essive-formal	pipaként	pipákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pipában	pipákban
superessive	pipán	pipákon
adessive	pipánál	pipáknál
illative	pipába	pipákba
sublative	pipára	pipákra
allative	pipához	pipákhoz
elative	pipából	pipákból
delative	pipáról	pipákról
ablative	pipától	pipáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	pipáé	pipáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	pipáéi	pipákéi

Possessive forms of pipa

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	pipám	pipáim
2nd person sing.	pipád	pipáid
3rd person sing.	pipája	pipái
1st person plural	pipánk	pipáink
2nd person plural	pipátok	pipáitok
3rd person plural	pipájuk	pipáik

Derived terms

• vízipipa

Descendants

• → Romanian: pipă

Adjective

pipa (comparative pipább, superlative legpipább)

1. (colloquial, predicatively) angry, furious

   Nagyon pipa vagyok rád. ― I'm very angry with you.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	pipa	pipák
accusative	pipát	pipákat
dative	pipának	pipáknak
instrumental	pipával	pipákkal
causal-final	pipáért	pipákért
translative	pipává	pipákká
terminative	pipáig	pipákig
essive-formal	pipaként	pipákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	pipában	pipákban
superessive	pipán	pipákon
adessive	pipánál	pipáknál
illative	pipába	pipákba
sublative	pipára	pipákra
allative	pipához	pipákhoz
elative	pipából	pipákból
delative	pipáról	pipákról
ablative	pipától	pipáktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	pipáé	pipáké
non-attributive possessive – plural	pipáéi	pipákéi

Further reading

• pipa in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

Etymology

• From Malay pipa (“barrel, cask, chimney”), from Portuguese pipa (“cask”), from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).
• The sense “pipe” is a semantic loan from Dutch pijp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpipa]
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa (plural pipa-pipa)

1. pipe,
   1. a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications

      Synonyms: pembuluh, buluh-buluh

   2. a hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe
2. chimney

   Synonym: cerobong

Alternative forms

• paip (“pipe”) (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

Derived terms

• berpipa
• pemipaan
• perpipaan

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pa/
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: pì‧pa

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f (plural pipe)

1. pipe
2. (vulgar, slang) a wank

Descendants

• → Czech: pípa
• → German: Pipe
• → Greek: πίπα (pípa)
• → Hungarian: pipa
  • → Romanian: pipă
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пипа

  Latin script: pipa

• → Slovak: pipa

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pipa

1. inflection of pipare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• appi, papi

Lingala

Noun

pipa

1. barrel

Maltese

Root
p-j-p
4 terms

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian pipa and/or Italian pipa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.pa/
• Rhymes: -iːpa

Noun

pipa f (plural pipi)

1. pipe (smoking implement)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• pipen

Noun

pipa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of pipe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

pipa f (definite singular pipa, indefinite plural piper or pipor, definite plural pipene or pipone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pipe
2. definite singular of pipe

Verb

pipa (present tense pip, past tense peip, supine pipe, past participle pipen, present participle pipande, imperative pip)

1. alternative form of pipe

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe (large container for storing liquids)
   • 1373, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     Item aqui en casa tres pipas et dous tonees et tres barrys grandes

     Item, here at home, three pipes and two tuns and three large barrels

2. (music) pipe
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Agora leixa o Conto afalaꝛ deſto por cõtar a qrta batalla [Now the tale stops talking about that to tell about the fourth battle]” (chapter 155), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 67r:

     Et os hũus tãgiã cornos ⁊ os outͦs pipas. Et os q̃ eſtauã plos muros da vila. algũus dls deoſtauã ⁊ deꝢiã moyto mal aos de fora.

     [Et os ũus tangian cornos et os outros pipas. Et os que estavan perlos muros da vila, algũus deles deostavan e dezian moyto mal aos de fora.]

     And some played horns and others pipes, and of the ones that were by the walls of the town, some insulted and told many mean things to the ones outside.

Descendants

• Galician: pipa
• Portuguese: pipa (see there for further descendants)

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pipa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “pipa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “pipa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pa/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pipe or Italian pipa.

Noun

pipa f (diminutive pipka)

1. pipette (small glass tube used for transferring liquid)

   Synonym: pipeta

2. (colloquial, vulgar) minge

   Synonym: cipa

3. (derogatory, vulgar) pussy, sissy (timid, unassertive or cowardly person)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

Noun

pipa f

1. pipa (Chinese lute)

Declension

Declension of pipa

	singular	plural
nominative	pipa	pipy
genitive	pipy	pip
dative	pipie	pipom
accusative	pipę	pipy
instrumental	pipą	pipami
locative	pipie	pipach
vocative	pipo	pipy

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “pipa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Portuguese

pipas (noun 1 sense 2)

pipas (noun 2 sense 1)

Alternative forms

• pipo

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa (“pipe”), from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip, to pipe”).

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pɐ/

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ipɐ
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pipa f or (nonstandard) m (plural pipas)

1. pipe (wooden barrel, especially for wine)

   Synonym: barril

3. (historical) pipe (traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume equal to 400–550 liters)

   Coordinate terms: almude (“¹⁄₂₅ pipa”), barril (“¹⁄₆ or ¹⁄₈ pipa”), tonel (“2 pipa”)

4. truckload (volume of a tanker)

Derived terms

• caminhão-pipa

Descendants

• → Bengali: পিপা (pipa)
  • → Assamese: পিপা (pipa)
    • → Deori: পিপা
  • → Odia: ପିପା (pipā)
• → Gujarati: પીપ (pīp)
• → Hindustani: (see there for further descendants)

  Hindi: पीपा (pīpā)

  Urdu: پِیپا (pīpā)

• → Kannada: ಪೀಪು (pīpu), ಪೀಪಾಯಿ (pīpāyi)
• → Konkani: पिप (pip), पींप (pīmpa)
• → Malayalam: പീപ്പ (pīppa)
• → Marathi: पीप (pīp)
• → Swahili: pipa
• → Tamil: பீப்பா (pīppā), பீப்பாய் (pīppāy)
• → Telugu: పీపా (pīpā)
• → Tulu: ಪೀಪ (pīpa)

Noun

pipa f or (regional) m (plural pipas)

2. (Brazil) kite (flying toy on a string)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pipa

   soltar pipa ― to fly a kite

Synonyms

Regional synonyms of pipa (“kite”)
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Dialect group	Dialect	Location	Words
Brazilian	Sertanejo	Campo Grande	pandorga, pipa, papagaio
		Cuiabá	pipa, pandorga, papagaio
		Goiânia	raia, pipa, papagaio
	Amazofonia	Belém	papagaio, pipa, rabiola, cangula
		Boa Vista	papagaio, pipa, curica
		Rio Branco	papagaio, pipa, pepeta
		Macapá	papagaio, pipa, curica, rabiola, cangula
		Manaus	papagaio, pipa
	Serra Amazônica	Porto Velho	papagaio, pipa
	Baiano	Salvador	raia, pipa, papagaio
	North Coast	São Luís	papagaio, pipa
		Teresina	papagaio, pipa
		Fortaleza	pipa, raia, papagaio
	Brazilian Northeastern	Aracaju	pipa, raia, papagaio
		João Pessoa	pipa, papagaio, coruja
		Maceió	pipa, raia, papagaio
		Natal	pipa, papagaio, coruja
	Recifense	Recife	pipa, papagaio
	Brazilian Southern	Curitiba	pipa, raia, pandorga, papagaio
	Florianopolitan	Florianópolis	pandorga, pipa, papagaio
	Gaúcho	Porto Alegre	pandorga, pipa, papagaio
	Carioca	Rio de Janeiro	pipa, papagaio
	Fluminense	Vitória	pipa, raia, papagaio
	Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	pipa, papagaio
	Paulistano	São Paulo	pipa, papagaio, quadrado, peixinho, raia
This table shows various regional forms in the Portuguese language.

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pipa”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
• “pipa”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “pipa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “pipa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

Romanian

Etymology

From pipă +‎ -a.

Verb

a pipa (third-person singular present pipează, past participle pipat) 1st conjugation

1. to smoke a pipe

Conjugation

    conjugation of pipa (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a pipa
gerund			pipând
past participle			pipat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	pipez	pipezi	pipează	pipăm	pipați	pipează
	imperfect	pipam	pipai	pipa	pipam	pipați	pipau
	simple perfect	pipai	pipași	pipă	piparăm	piparăți	pipară
	pluperfect	pipasem	pipaseși	pipase	pipaserăm	pipaserăți	pipaseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să pipez	să pipezi	să pipeze	să pipăm	să pipați	să pipeze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		pipează			pipați
	negative		nu pipa			nu pipați

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pîpa/
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

Noun

pȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏па)

1. faucet, tap

   Synonyms: slàvina, špȋna, rubìnet

Declension

Declension of pipa

	singular	plural
nominative	pipa	pipe
genitive	pipe	pipa
dative	pipi	pipama
accusative	pipu	pipe
vocative	pipo	pipe
locative	pipi	pipama
instrumental	pipom	pipama

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pìːpa/

Noun

pípa f

1. tap, faucet (device to dispense liquid)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	pípa
gen. sing.	pípe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	pípa	pípi	pípe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	pípe	píp	píp
dative (dajȃlnik)	pípi	pípama	pípam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	pípo	pípi	pípe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	pípi	pípah	pípah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	pípo	pípama	pípami

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/ [ˈpi.pa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe (device used for smoking)

   Synonym: cachimba

2. barrel

   Synonyms: cuba, barril

3. (colloquial) gun; shooter
4. (Bolivia, Canary Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico) A protruding belly

Noun

pipa m or f by sense (plural pipas)

1. (colloquial) roadie

Derived terms

• apiparse
• empipar
• limpiapipas
• pipa de agua
• pipeño
• pipote

Descendants

• → Basque: pipa

Adverb

pipa

1. (colloquial) very good

   Synonym: estupendamente

   Se lo está pasando pipa.

   He's having a blast.

Derived terms

• pasarlo pipa

Etymology 2

From pepita.

Noun

pipa m (plural pipas)

1. (colloquial) a genius, a smart person

Noun

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. (Spain) sunflower seed

   Synonym: pepita

2. (Central America) green coconut
3. (Canary Islands) pip, stone (seed inside fruits)

Derived terms

• no tener ni para pipas

Related terms

• pepa
• pepita

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

pipa

1. inflection of pipar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “pipa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “pipa”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010
• “pipa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Swahili

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin pīpō

Vulgar Latin *pipa

Old Galician-Portuguese pipa

Portuguese pipabor.

Swahili pipa

Borrowed from Portuguese pipa.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

pipa class V (plural mapipa class VI)

1. barrel, cask

Derived terms

• pipa la taka (“rubbish bin”)

Swedish

en pipa (noun sense 1)

en mus som röker pipa [a mouse smoking a pipe] (noun sense 1)

Etymology

From Old Norse pípa. Doublet of pip.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

pipa c

2. a pipe (smoking tool)

   röka pipa

   smoke a pipe ["smoke pipe" – idiomatic, see röka]

3. the barrel of a gun

   hälla krut i pipan

   pour gunpowder into the barrel

   stirra in i en gevärspipa

   stare down the barrel of a gun

   (literally, “stare into a rifle barrel”)

   Literally, not an idiom.

4. the hollow tube of a bone
5. (music) a pipe (wind instrument)

   Råttfångaren från Hameln spelar pipa

   The Pied Piper [the rat catcher] of Hamelin plays the pipe

   dansa efter någons pipa

   dance to someone's tune

   (literally, “dance after [in accordance with, along with] someone's pipe [idiomatic]”)

   säckpipa

   bagpipe

6. a whistle (short for visselpipa)

   Domaren blåste i (vissel)pipan

   The referee blew his whistle

7. (music) a pipe (of an organ)

   Synonym: orgelpipa (“organ pipe”)

8. (slang) pipes (singing voice)

   Hon har en bra pipa

   She's got good pipes

   (literally, “She has a good pipe”)

9. a pipa (type of Chinese lute)
10. (historical) a pipe (an old unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 470 liters or 124 US gallons)

Declension

Declension of pipa

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	pipa	pipas
	definite	pipan	pipans
plural	indefinite	pipor	pipors
	definite	piporna	pipornas

Derived terms

• benpipa
• dansa efter någons pipa (“dance to someone's tune”)
• glasblåsarpipa (“glassblower pipe”)
• kritpipa (“smoking pipe made of clay”)
• orgelpipa (“organ pipe”)
• piprensare (“smoking pipe cleaner wire”)
• piptobak (“pipe tobacco”)
• säckpipa (“bagpipe”)
• tobakspipa

Descendants

• → Finnish: piippu
  • → Ingrian: piippu

See also

• flöjt (“flute”)

Verb

pipa (present piper, preterite pep, supine pipit, imperative pip)

1. to yield a high sound or tone; squeak, peep, beep

   Möss, fågelungar och datorer piper

   Mice squeak, baby birds peep, and computers beep

Conjugation

Conjugation of pipa (class 1 strong)

	active		passive
infinitive	pipa		—
supine	pipit		—
imperative	pip		—
imper. plural1	pipen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	piper	pep	—	—
ind. plural1	pipa	pepo	—	—
subjunctive2	pipe	pepe	—	—
present participle		pipande
past participle		—

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

See also

• pip
• pipare
• pipljud

References

• “pipa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “pipa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “pipa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Venetan

Etymology 1

From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

Noun

pipa f

1. pipe

Etymology 2

Compare Spanish pepita (“nugget”), Portuguese pevide (“flat seed”).

Noun

pipa f

1. acorn

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

pipa f

1. circumflex (diacritic)
2. háček (diacritic)

References

• “pipa₁”, “pipa₂”, and “pipa₃” listed on page 216 of Lodovico Pizzati’s Venetian–English English–Venetian: When in Venice Do as the Venetians (2007, AuthorHouse, →ISBN)

Welsh

Alternative forms

• pipaf (first person singular future)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpa/

Verb

pipa

1. (literary) inflection of pipo:
   1. third-person singular present/future
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. (colloquial) inflection of pipo:
   1. first-person singular future
   2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of pipa

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pipa	bipa	mhipa	phipa

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.