paa

paa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Papuan languages.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, compare Malay paha.

paa

1. (anatomy) thigh

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaʔa/, [ˈpa.ʔa]
• Hyphenation: pa‧a

páa (Basahan spelling ᜉᜀ)

1. (anatomy) thigh; lap; haunch

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa.

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

• Hyphenation: pa‧a
• IPA^(key): /ˈpaʔa/, [ˈpa.ʔʌ]

paa

1. the thigh; the upper leg
2. the analogous part of an animal
3. a drumstick; the second joint of the leg bone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food

For quotations using this term, see Citations:paa.

• apa

paa

1. four

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

paa

1. water

• Jean Ormsbee Charney, A Grammar of Comanche (1993)

paa

1. (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of panna:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• pane (standard)

From Old Galician-Portuguese paa, from Latin pāla (“shovel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pak-slo-, from root *pag-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː/

paa f (plural paas)

1. Alternative form of pa

• “paa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

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

paa

1. father

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa.

paa

1. foot

paa

1. shoulder

• Theraphan L-Thongkum, A brief look at thirteen Mon-Khmer languages of Xekong province, southern Laos (2002), Collected Papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages (edited by Robert Stuart Bauer)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa.

paa

1. (anatomy) foot

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, compare Malay paha.

paa

1. (anatomy) thigh

paa

1. thirsty

   Synonym: paagh

paa

1. Alternative form of po

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

paa

1. four

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

paa

1. water

• Liljeblad, Sven, Fowler, Catherine S., Powell, Glenda (2012) The Northern Paiute-Bannock Dictionary, →ISBN

paa

1. (non-standard since 1917) alternative spelling of på

Inherited from Latin pālam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.a/

paa f

1. shovel; spade (tool for digging and moving material)

• Galician: pa, pá, paa
• Portuguese: pá

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

paa

1. water

• Jon P. Dayley, Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary (1989b; University of California Publications in Linguistics Volume 116), page 173

From Proto-Austronesian *paqa.

paa

1. (anatomy) thigh

• “卑南語辭典 [Puyuma Dictionary]”, in 原住民族語言線上詞典 [Online Dictionary of Aboriginal Languages] (in Mandarin), Taipei: Foundation for Research and Development of Aboriginal Languages, 2021

• baa (Eastern Shoshone)

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

paa

1. water

• Shoshoni Online Dictionary (2013-06-29)

From Proto-Bantu *mpàdá.

• IPA^(key): /pʰɑː/ (in dialects with phonemic aspiration)
• IPA^(key): /pɑː/ (in other dialects)

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

paa (n class, plural paa)

1. duiker (gazelle)

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

• IPA^(key): /pɑː/

• Audio (Kenya)

  (file)

paa (ma class, plural mapaa)

1. roof

-paa (infinitive kupaa)

1. to scrape
2. to raise, to ascend

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -paza (“to raise one's voice, to shout”)

From Proto-Austronesian *paqa (“thigh”). Compare Malay paha.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /paˈʔa/ [pɐˈʔa]
  • Rhymes: -a
• (chiefly Teresa-Morong, Batangas, Tayabas, Marinduque, now rare in other dialects) IPA^(key): /ˈpaʔa/ [ˈpa.ʔɐ]
  • Rhymes: -aʔa

paá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜀ)

1. (anatomy) foot
2. (anatomy, uncommon) leg

   Synonym: binti

3. (by extension) leg of furnitures

• “paa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 469: “Pata) Paa [(pp)] de animal o hombre”
  • page 482: “Pie) Paa (pp) qualquiera que ſea”
  • page 483: “Pierna) Paa (pp) de hombre o animal”
  • page 483: “Pies) Paa (pp) de meſa banco atril o otra coſa”

• apa, aap

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa.

paa

1. (anatomy) thigh

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

paa

1. (Southern) water

• Travis N. Benioh, The Paiute Language For Beginners (1980)
• William Bright, Southern Paiute and Ute Linguistics and Ethnography →ISBN, Southern Paiute Dictionary, page 619: pa·'
• Stacey Inez Oberly, A Phonetic Analysis of Southern Ute with a Discussion of Southern Ute Language Policies and Revitalization (2008)
• Heidi Harley, Topics in Chemehuevi Morphosyntax: Lexical Categories, Predication and Causation (2008)

• IPA^(key): /paː/

paa

1. (transitive) to hit or strike with the hand

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics