napa

• nappa

From the regional and colloquial Japanese term 菜っ葉 (nappa, “leaves of any vegetable”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

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napa (countable and uncountable, plural napas)

1. Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.

• celery cabbage
• napa cabbage

From Napa, California, where the process of making napa leather was created.

napa (countable and uncountable, plural napas)

1. napa leather

• APAn, Pana, apan, paan

napa

1. inflection of napë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

From Proto-Finnic *napa, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?], or alternatively and less likely from Proto-Germanic *nabō, but in either case ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑpɑ/, [ˈnɑ̝pɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Syllabification^(key): na‧pa
• Hyphenation^(key): na‧pa

napa

1. (anatomy) navel, belly button/bellybutton
2. pole (extreme of an axis; magnetic or electrical pole)
3. pivot (that on which something turns)

   Synonym: keskipiste

4. head (central part of propeller)

   Synonym: keskiö

5. (in compounds) polar

• “napa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• apan, paan

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip. Cognate with Tibetan ནུབ (nub, “to fall (gradually), sink, to set; to decay, to decline”) and Chinese 入 (rù, “to enter”).

napa (intransitive)

1. enter, go in, come in
2. set (of the sun and moon)

• -nap-

From Proto-Finno-Ugric or Proto-Uralic *anɜ (anɜppɜ) (“mother-in-law”);^[1][2] later also attested as nap (now obsolete; unrelated to Hungarian nap (“sun; day”)).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɒpɒ]
• Hyphenation: na‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

napa (uncountable)

1. (folksy, archaic) mother-in-law

   Synonym: anyós

   Coordinate term: ipa

or

• napa 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.
• napa in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (“A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.

From Proto-Finnic *napa. Cognates include Finnish napa and Estonian naba.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑpɑ/, [ˈnɑpɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑpɑ/, [ˈnɑb̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Hyphenation: na‧pa

napa

1. navel
2. short for napapuu

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 331

napa

1. tooth

From English napa leather, from Napa, a city in California where the process of making this type of leather was created.

• Rhymes: -apɐ
• Hyphenation: na‧pa

napa f (plural napas)

1. napa leather

• “napa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): /ˈnapa/ [ˈna.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: na‧pa

napa f (plural napas)

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napa m or f by sense (plural napas)

1. (Habbo, derogatory) a noob

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

napa

1. (interrogative) what