# epa
## Galician
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛpa̝/, /ˈepa̝/

### Interjection

epa!
* oops!
* hey!

### References

* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “epa”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin hēpar (“liver”), from Ancient Greek ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”), from Proto-Hellenic *yékʷər, from Proto-Indo-European *yókʷr̥ (“liver”), derived from the root *Hyekʷ-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛ.pa/
* Rhymes: -ɛpa
* Hyphenation: è‧pa

### Noun

epa f (plural epe)
* (archaic, literary) belly, stomach, abdomen
** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXX”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 118–120; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:"Ricorditi, spergiuro, del cavallo", rispuose quel ch’avëa infiata l’epa; "e sieti reo che tutto il mondo sallo!"."Remember, o perjurer, the horse," replied the one with the inflated stomach, "and be it miserable for you [the fact] that the whole world knows it!"

### References

* epa in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* Ape, ape

## Makasar
### Etymology

From Proto-South Sulawesi *kepak.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈepa]

### Noun

epa (Lontara spelling ᨕᨙᨄ)
* (anatomy) armpit

## Maori
### Noun

epa
* wall post

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɛ.pɐ/

### Interjection

epa
* hey (protest or reprimand)
* oops (expression of surprise)
    Synonym: opa

## Sabu
### Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

### Numeral

epa
* four

## Sotho
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jìmba.

### Verb

epa
* to dig

#### Descendants

* → Phuthi: -yebha

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈepa/ [ˈe.pa]
* Rhymes: -epa
* Syllabification: e‧pa

### Interjection

epa
* hey!
* (South America, colloquial) whoops!

### Further reading

* “epa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-epa (infinitive kuepa)
* to evade, dodge, avoid

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -epa :
| Positive present | -naepa |
| Subjunctive | -epe |
| Negative | -epi |
| Imperative singular | epa |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuepa |
| Negative | kutoepa |
Imperatives :
| Singular | epa |
| Plural | epeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huepa |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -liepa |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuepa |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -taepa |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -taepa |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -siepe |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngeepa |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singeepa |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngaliepa |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singaliepa |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -meepa |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshaepa |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jaepa |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kiepa |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipoepa |
| Consecutive | kaepa / positive subject concord + -kaepa |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kaepe |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* EPA

### Etymology

See EPA.

### Noun

epa c
* (colloquial) Alternative letter-case form of EPA
** (colloquial) Synonym of epatraktor
** (nonstandard) Synonym of A-traktor

#### Declension
## Tok Pisin
### Noun

epa
* stingray

## Zou
### Noun

epa
* his father

#### References

* http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf