# paa
## Translingual
### Symbol

paa
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Papuan languages.

## Aklanon
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa. Compare Malay paha.

### Noun

paa
* (anatomy) thigh

## Bikol Central
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaʔa/ [ˈpa.ʔa]
* Hyphenation: pa‧a

### Noun

páa (Basahan spelling ᜉᜀ) (anatomy)
* thigh, haunch
* lap
    Synonym: kulkolan

## Cebuano
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa.
First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaʔa/ [ˈpa.ʔɐ]
* Hyphenation: pa‧a

### Noun

páa (Badlit spelling ᜉᜀ)
* the thigh; the upper leg
* the analogous part of an animal
* a drumstick; the second joint of the leg bone of a chicken or other fowl, especially as an item of food

### Anagrams

* apa

## Cèmuhî
### Numeral

paa
* four

## Comanche
### Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

### Noun

paa
* water

### References

* Jean Ormsbee Charney, A Grammar of Comanche (1993)

## Finnish
### Verb

paa
* (colloquial or dialectal) inflection of panna:
** present active indicative connegative
** second-person singular present imperative
** second-person singular present active imperative connegative

#### Alternative forms

* pane (standard)

## Gagauz
### Etymology

From earlier paha, a vulgar form of Old Anatolian Turkish بَهَا (bahā), from Persian بها (bahâ). Compare Turkish paha, Azerbaijani baha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑː/

### Noun

paa (definite accusative paayı, plural paalar)
* price, cost (financial value)
    Synonym: kıymet
* worth, valor, value, worth
    Synonym: kıymet

#### Derived terms

* paalı
* paasız

### References

* ↑ Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “paa”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, page 952
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “paha”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 127
* Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 63

## Galician
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese paa, from Latin pāla (“shovel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pak-slo-, from root *pag-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaː/

### Noun

paa f (plural paas)
* Alternative form of pa

### References

* “paa”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## Garo
### Etymology

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

### Noun

paa
* father

## Higaonon
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa.

### Noun

paa
* (anatomy) foot

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa (“thigh”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaa/ [ˈpa.a]
* Hyphenation: pa‧a

### Noun

páa
* thigh
* haunch (of a horse, stag, etc.)

## Lutuv
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pāā]

### Noun

paa
* father

### References

* Kelly Harper Berkson, Amanda Bohnert, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Consonant Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎, volume 3, number 1

## Lawi
### Noun

paa
* shoulder

### Further reading

* Theraphan L-Thongkum, A brief look at thirteen Mon-Khmer languages of Xekong province, southern Laos (2002), Collected Papers on Southeast Asian and Pacific Languages (edited by Robert Stuart Bauer)

## Lindu
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa.

### Noun

paa
* (anatomy) foot

## Mansaka
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, compare Malay paha.

### Noun

paa
* (anatomy) thigh

## Manx
### Adjective

paa
* thirsty
    Synonym: paagh

#### Derived terms

* paays

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Middle English
### Noun

paa
* Alternative form of po

## Muna
### Etymology

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

### Numeral

paa
* four

## Northern Paiute
### Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

### Noun

paa
* water

### References

* Liljeblad, Sven, Fowler, Catherine S., Powell, Glenda (2012) The Northern Paiute-Bannock Dictionary, →ISBN

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Preposition

paa
* (non-standard since 1917) alternative spelling of på

## Old Galician-Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pālam.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpa.a/

### Noun

paa f (plural paas)
* shovel; spade (tool for digging and moving material)

#### Descendants

* Galician: pa, pá, paa
* Portuguese: pá

## Panamint
### Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

### Noun

paa
* water

### References

* Jon P. Dayley, Tümpisa (Panamint) Shoshone Dictionary (1989b; University of California Publications in Linguistics Volume 116), page 173

## Pawnee
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [paː]
* Hyphenation: paa

### Etymology 1

Cognate with Arikara paa.

#### Alternative forms

* pah

#### Noun

paá
* moon
* month

### Etymology 2

Cognate with Arikara waa.

#### Noun

paá
* elk, wapiti (Cervus elaphus)

### References

* Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 453
* Zachary Rice (2016) Repurposing the comparative method for Pawnee language and dialect revitalisation‎, University of Oklahoma (Master Thesis), pages 107, 111

## Puyuma
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *paqa.

### Noun

paa
* (anatomy) thigh

### References

* “paa”, in 原住民族語言線上詞典 [Online Dictionary of Aboriginal Languages] (in Mandarin), Taipei: Foundation for Research and Development of Aboriginal Languages, 2014

## Shoshone
### Alternative forms

* baa (Eastern Shoshone)

### Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

### Noun

paa
* water

### References

* Shoshoni Online Dictionary (2013-06-29)

## Swahili
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *mpàdá.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰɑː/ (in dialects with phonemic aspiration)
* IPA: /pɑː/ (in other dialects)
* Audio (Kenya):(file)

#### Noun

paa class IX (plural paa class X)
* duiker (gazelle)

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɑː/
* Audio (Kenya):(file)

#### Noun

paa class V (plural mapaa class VI)
* roof

#### Verb

-paa (infinitive kupaa)
* to scrape
* to raise, to ascend

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -paa :
| Positive present | -napaa |
| Subjunctive | -pae |
| Negative | -pai |
| Imperative singular | paa |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupaa |
| Negative | kutopaa |
Imperatives :
| Singular | paa |
| Plural | paeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupaa |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipaa |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupaa |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapaa |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapaa |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipae |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepaa |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepaa |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipaa |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipaa |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepaa |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapaa |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japaa |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipaa |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopaa |
| Consecutive | kapaa / positive subject concord + -kapaa |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapae |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

##### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Causative: -paza (“to raise one's voice, to shout”)

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa (“thigh”). Compare Malay paha.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /paˈʔa/ [pɐˈʔa]
** Rhymes: -a
* (now chiefly Rizal, Batangas, Quezon, Marinduque) IPA: /ˈpaʔa/ [ˈpaː.ʔɐ]
** Rhymes: -aʔa
* Syllabification: pa‧a

### Noun

paá (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜀ)
* (anatomy) foot
* (anatomy, uncommon) leg
    Synonym: binti
* (by extension) leg of furnitures

#### Derived terms

* mabigat ang paa
* magkapaa
* magpaa
* maikli ang paa
* nakapaa
* paahan
* paahin
* paanan
* paang-tikling
* tumayo sa sariling mga paa
* ugnaypaa

#### See also

* hita
* kaki
* pata

### Further reading

* “paa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 469: “Pata) Paa [(pp)] de animal o hombre”
** page 482: “Pie) Paa (pp) qualquiera que ſea”
** page 483: “Pierna) Paa (pp) de hombre o animal”
** page 483: “Pies) Paa (pp) de meſa banco atril o otra coſa”

### Anagrams

* apa, aap

## Tausug
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa.

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /paʔa/ [paˈʔɑ]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: pa‧a

### Noun

paa (Sulat Sūg spelling فَأَ)
* (anatomy) thigh

## Ute
### Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *pa.

### Noun

paa
* (Southern) water

### References

* Travis N. Benioh, The Paiute Language For Beginners (1980)
* William Bright, Southern Paiute and Ute Linguistics and Ethnography →ISBN, Southern Paiute Dictionary, page 619: pa·'
* Stacey Inez Oberly, A Phonetic Analysis of Southern Ute with a Discussion of Southern Ute Language Policies and Revitalization (2008)
* Heidi Harley, Topics in Chemehuevi Morphosyntax: Lexical Categories, Predication and Causation (2008)

## Waray-Waray
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *paqa, from Proto-Austronesian *paqa (“thigh”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpaa/, [ˈpa.a]
* Hyphenation: pa‧a

### Noun

páa
* thigh

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /paː/

### Verb

paa
* (transitive) to hit or strike with the hand

#### Conjugation
### References

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