pipi
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Maori pipi (“Paphies australis”).
Noun
pipi (plural pipis)
- (New Zealand) The edible saltwater clam Paphies australis, of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand.
- 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 124:
- She chuckles, and prises another shrinking pipi from its shell.
- (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland) The edible saltwater clam Plebidonax deltoides, endemic to Australia.
- 2006, Frank Prokop, Australian Fish Guide, 3rd edition, page 154:
- The sand whiting feeds on nippers, pipis, prawns and especially beach, squirt or blood worms and all these make terrific baits.
- 2007, Julie McEnally, Lawrie McEnally, Complete Book of Fishing Baits & Rigs, page 6:
- Pipis are very good baits for catching bream, trevally, whiting, particularly King George Whiting, leatherjackets and many others.
- 2009, David Johnson., The Geology of Australia, page 172:
- Bivalves are shells with two valves joined at a hinge, like oysters, pipis and many of the shells picked up on a modern beach.
Synonyms
- (Plebidonax deltoides): Coorong cockle, Goolwa cockle, eugarie, ugari, yugari
Etymology 2
Noun
pipi (uncountable)
- The astringent pods of Caesalpinia paipai, a Brazilian plant used in tanning.
Bikol Central
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: pi‧pi
- IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpi.piʔ]
Noun
pipì
Brunei Malay
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pipi/
- Hyphenation: pi‧pi
Noun
pipi
Catalan
Verb
pipi
- inflection of pipar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Finnish
Etymology
Hypocoristic form of kipeä (with assimilation k > p).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpipi/, [ˈpipi]
- Rhymes: -ipi
- Syllabification(key): pi‧pi
- Hyphenation(key): pi‧pi
Adjective
pipi (rarely inflected)
Noun
pipi (childish)
Declension
Inflection of pipi (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | pipi | pipit | |
genitive | pipin | pipien | |
partitive | pipiä | pipejä | |
illative | pipiin | pipeihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | pipi | pipit | |
accusative | nom. | pipi | pipit |
gen. | pipin | ||
genitive | pipin | pipien | |
partitive | pipiä | pipejä | |
inessive | pipissä | pipeissä | |
elative | pipistä | pipeistä | |
illative | pipiin | pipeihin | |
adessive | pipillä | pipeillä | |
ablative | pipiltä | pipeiltä | |
allative | pipille | pipeille | |
essive | pipinä | pipeinä | |
translative | pipiksi | pipeiksi | |
abessive | pipittä | pipeittä | |
instructive | — | pipein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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References
- ^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The Origin of Finnish Words][1] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN
- ^ Forsberg, Ulla-Maija (2021) Stadin slangin etymologinen sanakirja [Etymological Dictionary of Helsinki Slang][2] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSES 2021"), Helsinki: Gaudeamus, →ISBN
Further reading
- “pipi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (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
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Child speak, formed by doubling the first element of pisser (“to piss”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.pi/
Audio: (file)
Noun
pipi m (uncountable)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “pipi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pipi/
Noun
pipi
Hawaiian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpi.pi/
Noun
pipi
Higaonon
Noun
pipi
Indonesian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈpipi/ [ˈpi.pi]
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ipi
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipi
Italian
Verb
pipi
- inflection of pipare:
- second-person singular present indicative
- first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Malay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpipi/ [ˈpi.pi]
- Rhymes: -ipi
- Hyphenation: pi‧pi
Noun
pipi (Jawi spelling ڤيڤي, plural pipi-pipi)
References
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*pipi”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
Further reading
- “pipi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maori
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pi.pi/, [pi.pi]
Noun
pipi
- The edible saltwater clam Paphies australis, of the family Mesodesmatidae, endemic to New Zealand.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²piː.pɪ/
Verb
pipi
- (non-standard since 2012) supine of pipe
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpiː.pɪ/
Noun
pipi n
- (non-standard since 2012) definite plural of pip
Portuguese
Etymology
Of imitative origin
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /piˈpi/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /piˈpi/
- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: pi‧pi
Noun
pipi m (plural pipis) (childish)
- pee (urine)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urina
- willy (the penis)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
- vagina
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vagina
Romanian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpi.pi]
Audio: (file)
Noun
pipi n (uncountable)
Declension
singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | pipi | pipiul |
genitive-dative | pipi | pipiului |
vocative | pipiule |
Spanish
Etymology
Perhaps a reduplicated imitative base, with the reduplication suggesting smallness.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpipi/ [ˈpi.pi]
- Rhymes: -ipi
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipi m (plural pipis)
Further reading
- “pipi”, 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
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Noun
pipi class IX (plural pipi class X)
- a peppermint or other sweet candy
- Synonym: peremende
Tagalog
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpipi/ [ˈpiː.pɪ]
- Rhymes: -ipi
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Adjective
pipi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ)
Derived terms
- ikapipi
- kapipihan
- mapipi
- pipi at bingi
Etymology 2
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pipiq (“flat”). Compare Malay pipeh.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ] (noun)
- Rhymes: -ipiʔ
- IPA(key): /piˈpiʔ/ [pɪˈpɪʔ] (adjective)
- Rhymes: -iʔ
- IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ] (noun)
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ)
- act of flattening something; act of crushing something
Derived terms
- magpipi
- pipiin
Adjective
pipî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ)
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ] (“sterility; infertility”, noun)
- Rhymes: -ipiʔ
- IPA(key): /piˈpiʔ/ [pɪˈpɪʔ] (“sterile; infertile”, adjective; “sterile woman”, noun)
- Rhymes: -iʔ
- IPA(key): /ˈpipi/ [ˈpiː.pɪ] (obsolete) (“sterility; unripe fruit of camachile”, noun)
- IPA(key): /piˈpi/ [pɪˈpɪ] (obsolete) (“sterile; infertile”, adjective)
- IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ] (“sterility; infertility”, noun)
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ)
- sterility of a woman
- Synonym: pagkabaog
- infertility (of fruit trees or mammals)
- Synonym: pagkabaog
- (botany) unripe fruit of the camachile
Derived terms
- ikapipi
- mapipi
Adjective
pipî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ)
Derived terms
- ikapipi
- mapipi
Noun
pipî (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ)
Etymology 4
From Proto-Austronesian *pipi (“female genitalia”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -ipiʔ
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ) (childish)
Alternative forms
Etymology 5
From Proto-Philippine *piqpiq (“wash clothes by pounding on river rocks”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -ipiʔ
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ) (obsolete)
Derived terms
- ipagpipi
- magkapipi
- magpipi
- mamipi
- mangapipi
- mapipi
- pagpipi
- pagpipian
- pamimipi
- pipian
See also
Etymology 6
Possibly borrowed from Cebuano pipi.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpipi/ [ˈpiː.pɪ]
- Rhymes: -ipi
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipi (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ) (botany)
See also
Etymology 7
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -ipiʔ
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ) (obsolete)
Derived terms
- magpipi
- mamipi
- pamipian
- pipian
- pipiin
- pumipi
See also
Etymology 8
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈpipiʔ/ [ˈpiː.pɪʔ]
- Rhymes: -ipiʔ
- Syllabification: pi‧pi
Noun
pipì (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒᜉᜒ) (obsolete)
Derived terms
- kapipi
See also
Further reading
- “pipi”, 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[4] (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[5], La Noble Villa de Pila
- page 269: “Emmudeçer) Pipi (pp) no hablando”
- page 380: “Labrar) Pipi (pp) T. barro”
- page 385: “Lauar) Pipi (pp) coſa đ ropa”
- page 436: “Mudo) Pipi (pp) que no habla ni ſaue”
- page 462: “Pan) Pipi (pp) de jabon”
Ternate
Etymology
Within North-Halmaheran, cognate with Tidore pipi and Sahu pipisi. Externally, see Balinese pipis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpi.pi/
Noun
pipi
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Turkish
Etymology
Of imitative origin, similar to Greek πιπί (pipí).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [piˈpi]
Noun
pipi (definite accusative pipiyi, plural pipiler)
Declension
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See also
Wallisian
Etymology
Noun
pipi
Derived terms
- tini pipi (corned beef)
Waray-Waray
Noun
pipî
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɪpi/
Verb
pipi
- second-person singular future of pipo