pēpē

See also: pepe, Pepe, pépé, and pẹpẹ

Hawaiian

Etymology

Borrowed from English baby.

Noun

pēpē

  1. baby (very young child)

Maori

Etymology

Reduplication of pē; related to pēhi.

Verb

pēpē

  1. to mash
    Synonym: penupenu

Adjective

pēpē

  1. mashed, pulped
    He kai pēpē ngahau a ngā tāngata Arapi ko 'hūmuhu'; ka hangaia mā te penupenu o ngā kano tiki, ka ratoa me ngā pāraoa.
    The Arabs have a unique mashed food called ‘ḥummuṣ’, it is made by mashing chickpeas and served with bread.
  • pēhanga
  • whakapē

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pēpē”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 318
  • “pēpē” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Tongan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /peː.peː/

Noun

pēpē

  1. baby
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.