pa, verb. (primary idea, “to make to feel, suffers, etc.”, extensively used in composition), to kill, to murder, to put out of existence, to ruin, to stay, to betray to quench fire, to extinguish, to bruise, to rub, to scrub, to cut yam or calabash into halves, to break any hard nut, to peel the bark of a tree, to win a game, to hatch, (eggs), to tell fables, to be intoxicated (as with liquor).