# hapa
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hawaiian hapa, from English half.

#### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈhɑpə/

#### Noun

hapa (plural hapas)
* (Hawaii, California) A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half East or Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander and half white.
** 2016 August 8, Akemi Johnson, “Who Gets To Be 'Hapa'?”, in NPR‎:It's what my fiancé and I call ourselves, and how we think of the children we might have: second-generation hapas. But as the term grows in popularity, so does debate over how it should be used. Some people argue that hapa is a slur and should be retired.

##### Derived terms

* hapa haole

#### See also

* Amerasian
* haafu

### Etymology 2

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#### Pronunciation

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#### Noun

hapa (plural hapas)
* A mesh cage-like structure placed in the water to hold fish.
** 2015, M. Chakroff, P. Corps, Freshwater Fish Pond Culture and Management, page 148:Usually one female is placed into a hapa with two males to insure that fertilization occurs.

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

Borrowed from English half.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈha.pa/, [ˈhɐ.pə]

### Noun

hapa
* half of something
* someone who has Hawaiian ancestry mixed with another ethnicity

#### Descendants

* → English: hapa

## Ingrian
### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈhɑpɑ/, [ˈhɑpɑ]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈhɑpɑ/, [ˈhɑb̥ɑ]
* Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
* Hyphenation: ha‧pa

### Adjective

hapa (comparative hapemp)
* Alternative form of hapan (“sour”)
** 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 103:Höö kantoivat hartijoil burdjukkoja — hapal maijool, airanaal täytettyjä säkkijä lampaan nahast.They carried burdjuks — sacks made of sheep skin filled with ayran, sour milk.

#### Declension
### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 40

## Maori
### Etymology

Borrowed from English supper.

### Noun

hapa
* tea (meal)

### References

* “hapa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Sotho
### Verb

hapa
* to win

## Sundanese
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qapah. Cognate of Indonesian hampa.

### Adjective

hapa (Sundanese script ᮠᮕ)
* empty (of a grain of rice)
* sterile, infertile (of plants, rarely of animals and people

#### Derived terms

* hahapaan
* rohangan hapa

### Further reading

* Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Adjective

hapa
* pa class$_{(XVI)}$ inflected form of hii

### Adverb

hapa
* here

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha.ˈpa/

### Adverb

hapa
* like this, this way, thus

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics