pipa

• p'i-p'a (Wade–Giles)

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos.

pipa (plural pipas)

1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

• IPPA, PAPI

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/ [ˈpi.pa]
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipes)

1. barrel (especially a large one used to store cider or wine)

   Synonyms: barrica, bocói, carral

   • 1789, Xosefa Xovellanos, Proclamación de Carlos IV n'Uviedo‎^[2] (poem):

     Averéme hácia les pipes
     Per donde el vino manaba

     I approached the barrels
     out of which wine gushed

2. (by extension) what fits inside a barrel
3. (colloquial) drunkenness

   Synonyms: enfile, borrachera

4. water droplet
5. tobacco pipe

   Synonym: cachumba

• pipar
• pipote
• pipu
• empipar
• pipada
• piparadina
• pipera
• piperu
• pipiolu

Borrowed from Spanish pipa, from Spanish pepita.

pipa f (plural pipes)

1. sunflower seed

• “pipa”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “pipa”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pīpa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpi.pə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpi.pa]

pipa f (plural pipes)

1. pipe, tobacco pipe
2. pacifier

   Synonym: xumet

3. Ganoderma lucidum, a red-coloured mushroom
4. sunflower seed

• “pipa”, 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
• “pipa”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pipa”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

pipa

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipɑ/, [ˈpipɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ipɑ
• Syllabification^(key): pi‧pa
• Hyphenation^(key): pi‧pa

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

pipa

1. pipa (a type of Chinese lute)

pipa (dialectal)

1. alternative form of pipo

• appi

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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pipa m (plural pipas)

1. pipa (instrument)

• “pipa”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/ [ˈpi.pɐ]
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe, butt
2. pipe, flute

   Synonym: pito

3. tobacco pipe

   Synonym: cachimba

• pipote

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “pipa”, 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), “pipa”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “pipa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Borrowed from Italian pipa, from French pipe.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpipɒ]
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

pipa (plural pipák)

1. pipe (for smoking)
2. tick, checkmark (✓)

   Coordinate term: (×) iksz

• vízipipa

• → Romanian: pipă

pipa (comparative pipább, superlative legpipább)

1. (colloquial, predicatively) angry, furious

   Nagyon pipa vagyok rád. ― I'm very angry with you.

• pipa 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.

• From Malay pipa (“barrel, cask, chimney”), from Portuguese pipa (“cask”), from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).
• The sense “pipe” is a semantic loan from Dutch pijp.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpipa]
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

pipa (plural pipa-pipa)

1. pipe,
   1. a rigid tube that transports water, steam or other fluid, as used in plumbing and numerous other applications

      Synonyms: pembuluh, buluh-buluh

   2. a hollow stem with a bowl at one end used for smoking, especially a tobacco pipe but also including various other forms such as a water pipe
2. chimney

   Synonym: cerobong

• paip (“pipe”) (Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore)

• “pipa”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pa/
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: pì‧pa

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipe)

1. pipe
2. (vulgar, slang) a wank

• → Czech: pípa
• → German: Pipe
• → Greek: πίπα (pípa)
• → Hungarian: pipa
  • → Romanian: pipă
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пипа

  Latin script: pipa

• → Slovak: pipa

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pipa

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

• appi, papi

pipa

1. barrel

Borrowed from Sicilian pipa and/or Italian pipa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiː.pa/
• Rhymes: -iːpa

pipa f (plural pipi)

1. pipe (smoking implement)

• pipen

pipa m or f

1. definite feminine singular of pipe

pipa f (definite singular pipa, indefinite plural piper or pipor, definite plural pipene or pipone)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of pipe
2. definite singular of pipe

pipa (present tense pip, past tense peip, supine pipe, past participle pipen, present participle pipande, imperative pip)

1. alternative form of pipe

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/
• Rhymes: -ipa
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe (large container for storing liquids)
   • 1373, E. Cal Pardo, editor, Colección diplomática medieval do arquivo da catedral de Mondoñedo, Santiago: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 191:

     Item aqui en casa tres pipas et dous tonees et tres barrys grandes

     Item, here at home, three pipes and two tuns and three large barrels

2. (music) pipe
   • 1373 January 20, Fernán Martís, “Agora leixa o Conto afalaꝛ deſto por cõtar a qrta batalla [Now the tale stops talking about that to tell about the fourth battle]” (chapter 155), in Cronica Troiana [Trojan Chronicle], Kingdom of Galicia, translation of Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (in Old French), →OCLC, manuscript MSS/10233, page 67r:

     Et os hũus tãgiã cornos ⁊ os outͦs pipas. Et os q̃ eſtauã plos muros da vila. algũus dls deoſtauã ⁊ deꝢiã moyto mal aos de fora.

     [Et os ũus tangian cornos et os outros pipas. Et os que estavan perlos muros da vila, algũus deles deostavan e dezian moyto mal aos de fora.]

     And some played horns and others pipes, and of the ones that were by the walls of the town, some insulted and told many mean things to the ones outside.

• Galician: pipa
• Portuguese: pipa (see there for further descendants)

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “pipa”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2020–2026), “pipa”, in Vocabulário histórico-cronológico do português medieval [Historical and chronological vocabulary of Medieval Portuguese] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “pipa”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

• IPA^(key): /ˈpi.pa/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

Probably from French pipe or Italian pipa, from Vulgar Latin *pipa.

pipa f (diminutive pipka)

1. pipette (small glass tube used for transferring liquid)

   Synonym: pipeta

2. (colloquial, vulgar) minge

   Synonym: cipa

3. (derogatory, vulgar) pussy, sissy (timid, unassertive or cowardly person)

Borrowed from Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá).

pipa f

1. pipa (Chinese lute)

• “pipa”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “pipa”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

• pipo

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese pipa (“pipe”), from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip, to pipe”).

• Audio (Brazil (Caipira)):

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• Rhymes: -ipɐ
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe (wooden barrel, especially for wine)

   Synonym: barril

3. (historical) pipe (traditional Portuguese unit of liquid volume equal to 400–550 liters)

   Coordinate terms: almude (“¹⁄₂₅ pipa”), barril (“¹⁄₆ or ¹⁄₈ pipa”), tonel (“2 pipa”)

4. truckload (volume of a tanker)

pipa f or (regional) m (plural pipas)

2. (Brazil) kite (flying toy on a string)

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pipa

   soltar pipa ― to fly a kite

Regional synonyms of pipa (“kite”)
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Dialect group	Dialect	Location	Words
Brazilian	Sertanejo	Campo Grande	pandorga, pipa, papagaio
		Cuiabá	pipa, pandorga, papagaio
		Goiânia	raia, pipa, papagaio
	Amazofonia	Belém	papagaio, pipa, rabiola, cangula
		Boa Vista	papagaio, pipa, curica
		Rio Branco	papagaio, pipa, pepeta
		Macapá	papagaio, pipa, curica, rabiola, cangula
		Manaus	papagaio, pipa
	Serra Amazônica	Porto Velho	papagaio, pipa
	Baiano	Salvador	raia, pipa, papagaio
	North Coast	São Luís	papagaio, pipa
		Teresina	papagaio, pipa
		Fortaleza	pipa, raia, papagaio
	Brazilian Northeastern	Aracaju	pipa, raia, papagaio
		João Pessoa	pipa, papagaio, coruja
		Maceió	pipa, raia, papagaio
		Natal	pipa, papagaio, coruja
	Recifense	Recife	pipa, papagaio
	Brazilian Southern	Curitiba	pipa, raia, pandorga, papagaio
	Florianopolitan	Florianópolis	pandorga, pipa, papagaio
	Gaúcho	Porto Alegre	pandorga, pipa, papagaio
	Carioca	Rio de Janeiro	pipa, papagaio
	Fluminense	Vitória	pipa, raia, papagaio
	Mineiro	Belo Horizonte	pipa, papagaio
	Paulistano	São Paulo	pipa, papagaio, quadrado, peixinho, raia
This table shows various regional forms in the Portuguese language.

• “pipa”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “pipa”, in Dicionário Eletrônico Houaiss [Houaiss Electronic Dictionary] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: UOL, 2004–2026
• “pipa”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “pipa”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
• “pipa”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN

From pipă +‎ -a.

a pipa (third-person singular present pipează, past participle pipat) 1st conjugation

1. to smoke a pipe

From Italian.

• IPA^(key): /pîpa/
• Hyphenation: pi‧pa

pȉpa f (Cyrillic spelling пи̏па)

1. faucet, tap

   Synonyms: slàvina, špȋna, rubìnet

• “pipa”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /pìːpa/

pípa f

1. tap, faucet (device to dispense liquid)

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	pípa
gen. sing.	pípe
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	pípa	pípi	pípe
genitive (rodȋlnik)	pípe	píp	píp
dative (dajȃlnik)	pípi	pípama	pípam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	pípo	pípi	pípe
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	pípi	pípah	pípah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	pípo	pípama	pípami

• IPA^(key): /ˈpipa/ [ˈpi.pa]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ipa
• Syllabification: pi‧pa

From Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō (“to pip”).

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. pipe (device used for smoking)

   Synonym: cachimba

2. barrel

   Synonyms: cuba, barril

3. (colloquial) gun; shooter
4. (Bolivia, Canary Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico) A protruding belly

pipa m or f by sense (plural pipas)

1. (colloquial) roadie

• → Basque: pipa

pipa

1. (colloquial) very good

   Synonym: estupendamente

   Se lo está pasando pipa.

   He's having a blast.

From pepita.

pipa m (plural pipas)

1. (colloquial) a genius, a smart person

pipa f (plural pipas)

1. (Spain) sunflower seed

   Synonym: pepita

2. (Central America) green coconut
3. (Canary Islands) pip, stone (seed inside fruits)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

pipa

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

• “pipa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
• “pipa”, in Diccionario Básico de Canarismos [Basic Dictionary of Canarianisms] (in Spanish), Canarian Academy of the Language [Spanish: Academia Canaria de La Lengua], 2010
• “pipa”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Borrowed from Portuguese pipa.^[1]

• Audio (Kenya):

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pipa class V (plural mapipa class VI)

1. barrel, cask

From Old Norse pípa. Doublet of pip.

• Audio:

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pipa c

2. a pipe (smoking tool)

   röka pipa

   smoke a pipe ["smoke pipe" – idiomatic, see röka]

3. the barrel of a gun

   hälla krut i pipan

   pour gunpowder into the barrel

   stirra in i en gevärspipa

   stare down the barrel of a gun

   (literally, “stare into a rifle barrel”)

   Literally, not an idiom.

4. the hollow tube of a bone
5. (music) a pipe (wind instrument)

   Råttfångaren från Hameln spelar pipa

   The Pied Piper [the rat catcher] of Hamelin plays the pipe

   dansa efter någons pipa

   dance to someone's tune

   (literally, “dance after [in accordance with, along with] someone's pipe [idiomatic]”)

   säckpipa

   bagpipe

6. a whistle (short for visselpipa)

   Domaren blåste i (vissel)pipan

   The referee blew his whistle

7. (music) a pipe (of an organ)

   Synonym: orgelpipa (“organ pipe”)

8. (slang) pipes (singing voice)

   Hon har en bra pipa

   She's got good pipes

   (literally, “She has a good pipe”)

9. a pipa (type of Chinese lute)
10. (historical) a pipe (an old unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 470 liters or 124 US gallons)

• → Finnish: piippu
  • → Ingrian: piippu

• flöjt (“flute”)

pipa (present piper, preterite pep, supine pipit, imperative pip)

1. to yield a high sound or tone; squeak, peep, beep

   Möss, fågelungar och datorer piper

   Mice squeak, baby birds peep, and computers beep

• pip
• pipare
• pipljud

• “pipa”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “pipa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “pipa”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

From Vulgar Latin *pipa (“pipe”), from Latin pīpō (“to pip”).

pipa f

1. pipe

Compare Spanish pepita (“nugget”), Portuguese pevide (“flat seed”).

pipa f

1. acorn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

pipa f

1. circumflex (diacritic)
2. háček (diacritic)

• “pipa₁”, “pipa₂”, and “pipa₃” listed on page 216 of Lodovico Pizzati’s Venetian–English English–Venetian: When in Venice Do as the Venetians (2007, AuthorHouse, →ISBN

• pipaf (first person singular future)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪpa/

pipa

1. (literary) inflection of pipo:
   1. third-person singular present/future
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. (colloquial) inflection of pipo:
   1. first-person singular future
   2. second-person singular imperative