polpa

Inherited from Latin pulpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolpa/
• Syllabification: pol‧pa
• Rhymes: -olpa

polpa f (plural polpas)

1. pulp

• Bal Palazios, Santiago (2002) “polpa”, in Dizionario breu de a luenga aragonesa, Zaragoza, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpol.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpol.pa]
• Rhymes: -olpa
• Hyphenation: pol‧pa

Inherited from Latin pulpa.

• popa (Balearic)

polpa f (plural polpes)

1. pulp, flesh, pith

• polpar
• polpeta
• polpís
• polpós

• “polpa”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

polpa

1. inflection of polpar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin pulpa. Cognate with Portuguese polpa and Spanish pulpa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpolpa/ [ˈpol.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -olpa
• Hyphenation: pol‧pa

polpa f (plural polpas)

1. pulp, flesh

   Synonym: carne

2. generic name for any fleshy parts of the body: calves, fingertips, hand eminences, etc.

   Synonym: papo

3. soft part of the hoof of an animal

• polpizo
• polpullo

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “polpa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “polpa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “polpa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Latin pulpa, from Old Latin *pelpa, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”). Unrelated to polpo (“octopus”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpol.pa/
• Rhymes: -olpa
• Hyphenation: pól‧pa

polpa f (plural polpe)

1. pulp (of fruit)
2. flesh

• impolpare

• polpetta
• polposo

• polpa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• lappo, lappò, loppa, palpo, palpò

From Portuguese polpa in the meaning of "flesh".

polpa

1. (vulgar) butt, buttocks
2. (vulgar) bottom, bum
3. (vulgar) ass

From Old Galician-Portuguese polpa, from Latin pulpa, from Old Latin *pelpa, from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“flour, dust”).

• Homophone: poupa (Brazil)
• Hyphenation: pol‧pa

polpa f (plural polpas)

1. pulp; flesh (edible part of fruit/vegetable)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:polpa.

• polposo