aapa

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From Urdu آپا (āpā) / Bengali আপা (apa).

• IPA ^(key): /ɑːpɑː/
• Audio (US ): (file)

aapa (plural aapas )

1. (Bangladesh , India , Pakistan , rare ) A sister that is older than oneself; also used as a term of familiarity or respect toward a woman that is older.
   • 2006, Asha Ranawa, Woman's Triumph‎^[1] , page 46:

     I am close to bhai and his wife Shaffo, whom I call aapa, who herself is a well-read person and a true soul-mate to her husband.

From a Sami language (compare Northern Sami áhpi ("swamp, high seas")), from Old Norse haf .

In use at least since the second half of the 19th century, for instance attested in Elias Lönnrot: Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja ("Finnish-Swedish Dictionary", 1866-1880).^[1]

• IPA ^(key): /ˈɑːpɑ/, [ˈɑ̝ːpɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑːpɑ
• Syllabification^(key): aa‧pa
• Hyphenation^(key): aa‧pa

aapa

1. A type of open swamp.

• aapasuo

• "aapa", in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Proto-Eskimo *ata-ata ("father")

aapa

1. father

• taata

• National Bilingual Materials Development Center, Alaska (1979). Kaniqsisautit Uqayusragnikun Kobuk Inupiat Junior Dictionary
• Seiler, W. (2012). Iñupiatun Eskimo Dictionary, SIL International

• IPA ^(key): /ˈaːpa/
• Rhymes: -aːpa
• Syllabification: aa‧pa

aapa (inalienable, first person singular taapa , second person singular paapa )

1. finger

aapa 1 (transitive)

1. to give
2. to listen, to hear

• Álvarez, José; Bravo, María (2008), "aapa", in Diccionario básico de la lengua añú [Basic dictionary of the Añú language]‎^[3] , Maracaibo, Venezuela: University of Zulia, →ISBN, page 41.

• apa

Borrowed from English half .

• IPA ^(key): /ˈaːpa/, [ˈɐːpɐ]

aapa

1. part

• "aapa" in Cliff Goddard (1992), Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara to English Dictionary, 2nd edition

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