hapa

Borrowed from Hawaiian hapa, from English half.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑpə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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hapa (plural hapas)

1. (Hawaii, California) A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half East or Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander and half white.
   • 2016 August 8, Akemi Johnson, “Who Gets To Be 'Hapa'?”, in NPR‎^[1]:

     It's what my fiancé and I call ourselves, and how we think of the children we might have: second-generation hapas.
     But as the term grows in popularity, so does debate over how it should be used. Some people argue that hapa is a slur and should be retired.

• Amerasian
• haafu

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hapa (plural hapas)

1. A mesh cage-like structure placed in the water to hold fish.
   • 2015, M. Chakroff, P. Corps, Freshwater Fish Pond Culture and Management, page 148:

     Usually one female is placed into a hapa with two males to insure that fertilization occurs.

Borrowed from English half.

• IPA^(key): /ˈha.pa/, [ˈhɐ.pə]

hapa

1. half of something
2. someone who has Hawaiian ancestry mixed with another ethnicity

• → English: hapa

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑpɑ/, [ˈhɑpɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑpɑ/, [ˈhɑb̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Hyphenation: ha‧pa

hapa (comparative hapemp)

1. alternative form of hapan (“sour”)
   • 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 103:

     Höö kantoivat hartijoil burdjukkoja — hapal maijool, airanaal täytettyjä säkkijä lampaan nahast.

     They carried burdjuks — sacks made of sheep skin filled with ayran, sour milk.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 40

Borrowed from English supper.

hapa

1. tea (meal)

• “hapa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Western Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈxa.pa]

hapa f

1. (Lublin) alternative form of gapa

• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “hapa”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 200

hapa

1. to win

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qapah. Cognate of Indonesian hampa.

hapa (Sundanese script ᮠᮕ)

1. empty (of a grain of rice)
2. sterile, infertile (of plants, rarely of animals and people)

• Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

• Audio (Kenya):

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hapa

1. pa class_(XVI) inflected form of hii

hapa

1. here

• IPA^(key): /ha.ˈpa/

hapa

1. like this, this way, thus

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics