παπάρα
Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پاپاره (papara), from Proto-Slavic *popara (“scald”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /paˈpaɾa/
- Hyphenation: πα‧πά‧ρα
Noun
παπάρα • (papára) f (plural παπάρες)
- dunking bread, dunked bread, sop (bread which is for or has been put into liquid food such as oil, salad, etc)
- Βουτώ την παπάρα σε λάδι.
- Voutó tin papára se ládi.
- I dunk bread into oil.
- (colloquial, figuratively, in the plural παπάρες (papáres)) crap, rubbish, nonsense (anything meaningless)
- Ο γέρος όλο κάθεται και λέει παπάρες.
- O géros ólo káthetai kai léei papáres.
- The old man just sits and talks nonsense all the time.
Declension
declension of παπάρα
Synonyms
- (nonsense, crap): χαζομάρες f pl (chazomáres), βλακείες f pl (vlakeíes), κουταμάρες f pl (koutamáres), σαχλαμάρες f pl (sachlamáres)
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