# pepa
## Hawaiian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English paper.

#### Noun

pepa
* paper
* card

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pepper.

#### Noun

pepa
* pepper

## Italian
### Verb

pepa
* inflection of pepare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Maori
### Etymology

Borrowed from English paper.

### Noun

pepa
* paper

## Marshallese
### Alternative forms

* peba

### Etymology

Borrowed from English pepper, from Middle English peper, piper, from Old English piper, from West Germanic *piper, from Latin piper, from an Indo-Aryan source.

### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pʲɛbʲɑ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pʲɛpʲæɰ/
* Bender phonemes: {pepah}

### Noun

pepa
* pepper (Piperaceae)
* a pepper (Capsicum)

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Niuean
### Etymology

From English paper.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpe.pa/, [ˈpɛpə]
* Hyphenation: pe‧pa

### Noun

pepa
* paper

## Rotokas
### Etymology

Borrowed from Tok Pisin pepa, from English paper.

### Noun

pepa
* paper

### References

* Firchow, Irwin, Firchow, Jacqueline, Akoitai, David (1973) Vocabulary of Rotokas - Pidgin - English‎, Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, page 73

## Spanish
### Etymology

See pepita.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpepa/ [ˈpe.pa]
* Rhymes: -epa
* Syllabification: pe‧pa

### Noun

pepa f (plural pepas)
* (Latin America) pip, stone (seed inside fruits)
* (Latin America) pepita, certain large edible seeds e.g. sunflower seed
    Synonym: pepita
* nugget (small piece of metal especially gold)
    Synonym: pepita
* (Latin America, slang) pill (recreational drug in pill-form especially amphetamine)
* (Latin America, slang) clitoris
* (Venezuela, informal) pimple

#### Related terms

* pepazo
* pepita
* pipa

### Further reading

* “pepa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-pepa (infinitive kupepa)
* to sway

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -pepa :
| Positive present | -napepa |
| Subjunctive | -pepe |
| Negative | -pepi |
| Imperative singular | pepa |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kupepa |
| Negative | kutopepa |
Imperatives :
| Singular | pepa |
| Plural | pepeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hupepa |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -lipepa |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kupepa |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tapepa |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tapepa |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sipepe |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngepepa |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singepepa |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalipepa |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalipepa |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mepepa |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshapepa |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -japepa |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kipepa |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipopepa |
| Consecutive | kapepa / positive subject concord + -kapepa |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kapepe |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology 1

From English pepper.

#### Noun

pepa
* pepper

### Etymology 2

From English paper.

#### Noun

pepa
* paper
* document
* newspaper

##### Derived terms

* pekpek pepa (“toilet paper”)

##### Related terms

* niuspepa

##### Descendants

* → Rotokas: pepa