# pop
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK, Canada) enPR: pŏp, IPA: /pɒp/
* (US) enPR: pŏp, IPA: /pɑp/
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English pop, poppe (“a blow; strike; buffet”) (> Middle English poppen (“to strike; thrust”, verb)), of onomatopoeic origin – used to describe the sound, or short, sharp actions. The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.

#### Noun

pop (countable and uncountable, plural pops)
* (countable) A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle, especially when the contents are pressurized by fizziness.
    Coordinate term: cloop
    Listen to the pop of a champagne cork.
* (uncountable, regional, Midwestern US, Canada, Inland Northern American, Midlands, Northwestern US, Western Pennsylvania, Northern England) An effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; soda pop.
    Lunch was sandwiches and a bottle of pop.
** 1941 September 8, LIFE, page 27:The best thing on the table was a tray full of bottles of lemon pop.
* (countable, regional, Midwestern US, Inland Northern American, Northwestern US, Canada, Western Pennsylvania) A bottle, can, or serving of effervescent or fizzy drink, most frequently nonalcoholic; a soda pop.
    Go in the store and buy us three pops.
* A pop shot: a quick, possibly unaimed, shot with a firearm.
    The man with the gun took a pop at the rabbit.
* (colloquial, in the phrase "a pop") A quantity dispensed; a portion; apiece.
    They cost 50 pence a pop.
** 2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 134:British rockers Radiohead solved the "music is dead" dispute last year by allowing fans to name a price for the group's new album, In Rainbows. (More than a million albums sold in the first week alone, at an average $8 a pop).
* Something that stands out or is distinctive to the mind or senses.
    a white dress with a pop of red
    a pop of vanilla flavour
** 2023 November 4, Kim Duong, Megan Uy, Tarah-Lynn Saint-Elien, “22 Best Shackets to Get You Through the Chilly Fall Weather”, in Cosmopolitan‎:Nothing screams fall like corduroy! I'm loving this deep seafoam green shacket—made of the thick, ribbed material—that'll give a fab pop of color to a muted ensemble.
* (computing) The removal of a data item from the top of a stack.
** 2011, Mark Lutz, Programming Python, page 1371:Pushes and pops change the stack; indexing just accesses it.
* A bird, the European redwing.
* (physics) The sixth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, jounce, crackle), i.e. the rate of change of crackle.
* (slang, dated) A pistol.
** 1916, Adventure, volume 13, numbers 1-3, page 129:And then I got a shock, for a couple of ragged patriots standing close by, leaned over as Elliot moved, their eyes shining viciously, and quick as winking out came their pops, and I saw them ready and willing, yes, darned anxious to shoot.
* (US, mostly in plural) A small, immature peanut, boiled as a snack.
** 1986, Mid-America Folklore, volume 14, page 6:Immature peanuts, called "pops," are often included when the peanuts are boiled at home […]
** 2013, Becky Billingsley, A Culinary History of Myrtle Beach & the Grand Strand:If the peanuts weren't yet mature, boiling them would make the tiny nuts—or “pops,” as they're called at that immature stage—swell up and become more filling.
* (colloquial) Clipping of freeze pop.
** 2017, Kenny Attaway, Black Cream: A Handful of Sky & a Pocketful of Confetti‎:Although they go by many names across the world freezer pop, ice-pole, pop stick icy-pole ice pop, tip top and ice candy but in the hoods of America they are known and respected as Freeze Pops. The pops are made by freezing flavored liquid such as sugar water, Kool-Aid or some form of fruit juice or purée inside a plastic tube - at least the kinds we ate.
* (colloquial) A lollipop.
* (professional wrestling slang) A (usually very) loud audience reaction.
* (music) The pulling of a string away from the fretboard and releasing it so that it snaps back.

##### Synonyms

* (soda pop): see the list at soda

##### Translations
#### Verb

pop (third-person singular simple present pops, present participle popping, simple past and past participle popped)
* (intransitive) To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound.
    The muskets popped away on all sides.
* (ergative) To burst (something) with a popping sound.
    The boy with the pin popped the balloon.
    This corn pops well.
** 1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished London: The Hogarth Press, 1960, →OCLC:The waves came round her. She was a rock. She was covered with the seaweed which pops when it is pressed. He was lost.
** 2016 October 10, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, Oct 10, 2016:"To torture another metaphor, it would be the difference between slowly letting the air out of a balloon, and popping it. Though the dam metaphor is more apt, what with the excess magic flooding outward."
* (intransitive, with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart.
    Synonym: peek
    A rabbit popped out of the hole.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], line 65:He that hath . . ./ Popp'd in between the election and my hopes.
** 1712 January 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, January 10, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 271; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:I startled at his popping upon me unexpectedly.The spelling has been modernized.
** 1626, John Donne, “On the Nativity”, in Sermons, section IV:So, diving in a bottomless sea, they [the Roman Church] pop sometimes above water to take breath.
** 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman:others again have a trick of popping up and down every moment from their paper, to the audience, like an idle schoolboy
** 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, section II:When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frightened rabbits in a warren.
** 1989, Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage:Lee Cheng popped on the phone line. "Right. I'm tracing it." More keytaps, this time with a few beeps thrown in.
* (transitive, UK, Australia) To place (something) (somewhere); to move or position (something) with a short movement.
    Synonym: nip
    Just pop it in the fridge for now.
    He popped his head around the door.
** 1986, Christina Rossetti, edited by Alfred Knopf, Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young, Mix a Pancake, page 50:Mix a pancake, Stir a pancake, Pop it in the pan; […]
* (intransitive, often with over, round, along, in, etc.) To make a short trip or visit.
    I'm just popping round to the newsagent.
    I'll pop by your place later today.
    You wait in the car, I'm just gonna pop in the store.
* (intransitive) To stand out; to be distinctive to the senses.
    This colour really pops.
** 2011 July 18, Robert Costa, “The Battle from Waterloo: Representative Bachmann runs for president”, in National Review:She also looked like a star - and not the Beltway type. On a stage full of stiff suits, she popped.
** 2024 September 5, Beth Gillette, “24 Fall Hair Colors Every Celebrity Is Asking for Rn”, in Cosmopolitan‎:IK what you’re thinking: Why bright for fall? But it’s actually a great hack for making your hair pop a bit more against all those big black coats and jackets.
* (transitive) To hit (something or someone).
    He popped me on the nose.
* (transitive, slang) To shoot (usually somebody) with a firearm.
* (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate; to orgasm.
** 1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Bang to Rites”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 219:Ah concur wi Sharon’s wishes n fuck her in the fanny. […] Ah think aboot how close she is tae poppin and how far up ah am, […]
* (transitive, computing) To remove (a data item) from the top of a stack.
** 2010, Enrico Perla, Massimiliano Oldani, A Guide to Kernel Exploitation: Attacking the Core, page 55:Once the callee (the called function) terminates, it cleans the stack that it has been locally using and pops the next value stored on top of the stack.
** 2011, John Mongan, Noah Kindler, Eric Giguère, Programming Interviews Exposed:The algorithm pops the stack to obtain a new current node when there are no more children (when it reaches a leaf).
* (intransitive, slang) To give birth.
** 2011 May 28, Matthew Graham, “The Almost People”, in Julian Simpson, director, Doctor Who, season 6/32, episode 6, spoken by Madame Kovarian (Frances Barber):Well, dear. You're ready to pop, aren't you? Little one's on its way.
** 2021 April 12, Jocelyn Samara D., Rain (webcomic), Comic 1362 - Prophecy:"Gavin told me one of his friends was pregnant, but my goodness, she looks ready to pop."
* (transitive, slang) To pawn (something) (to raise money).
    I had to pop my watch to see me through until pay-day.
** 1773, The Westminster Magazine, Or, The Pantheon of Taste:I often used to smile at a young Ensign of the Guards, who always popped his sword and watch when he wanted cash for an intrigue; […]
** 1878, Fun, volumes 27-28, page 92:Mr. Attenborough is naturally indignant at the accusation of Lord Truro that every pawnbroker keeps a smelting apparatus on the premises. He says the practice has been discontinued for many years, and our esteemed relative — the Universal Uncle — objects to the insinuation that when a thing is popped it goes to pot.
* (transitive, slang) To swallow or consume (especially a tablet of a drug, sometimes extended to other small items such as sweets or candy).
** 1994, Ruth Garner, Patricia A. Alexander, Beliefs about text and instruction with text:We were drinking beer and popping pills — some really strong downers. I could hardly walk and I had no idea what I was saying.
** 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:31 pop some chocolate You'll stay sharp and focused for that final lunge toward the weekend. Milk chocolate has been shown to boost verbal and visual memory, impulse control, and reaction time.
* (transitive, informal) To perform (a move or stunt) while riding a board or vehicle.
    Pop a U-turn. You missed the turnoff.
** 1995, David Brin, Startide Rising:Huck spun along the beams and joists, making me gulp when she popped a wheelie or swerved past a gaping hole...
** 2009, Ben Wixon, Skateboarding: Instruction, Programming, and Park Design:The tail is the back of the deck; this is the part that enables skaters to pop ollies...
* (intransitive, of the ears) To undergo equalization of pressure when the Eustachian tubes open.
    My ears popped as the aeroplane began to ascend.
** 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49:With its airtight seals, the pressure change as trains entered the black, dust-covered station areas caused our ears to pop and doors to flap and bang every time.
* (dance) To perform the popping style of dance.
** 1985, “King of Rock”, performed by Run-DMC:Let the poppers pop and the breakers break / We're cool, cool cats, it's like that
* (transitive, slang) To arrest.
    He's on probation. We can pop him right now for gang association.
** 2021, Brandon Taylor, “Filthy Animals”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 131:On the night Nolan got popped, the same cop delivered Milton home in the back of the cruiser, but didn’t turn the lights on.
* (music) To pull a string away from the fretboard and release it so that it snaps back.
* (African-American Vernacular, slang) To occur or happen.
    What's popping?

##### Translations
#### Interjection

pop
* A loud, sharp sound, as of a cork coming out of a bottle.
** 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 203:Pop, would go one of the eight-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happened.
** 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 2:So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, 'Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow.

##### Translations
#### Derived terms

* alcopop
* blow this pop stand
* cake pop
* cherry-pop
* cherry-popping
* city pop
* color pop
* cookie pop
* cool pop
* corporation pop
* council pop
* eye-popping
* freeze pop
* ginger-pop
* ginger pop
* granny-pop-out-of-bed
* have a pop at
* hedge popping
* hop and pop
* ice cream pop
* ice pop
* on and popping
* paddle pop
* passion pop
* pec pop
* pick and pop
* pop a cap in someone's ass
* pop a deuce
* pop around
* pop a squat
* popcorn
* pop down
* popeyed
* pop fastener
* pop filter
* pop fly
* pop for
* pop gun, popgun
* pop-in
* pop in
* pop off
* pop on
* pop one's clogs
* pop one's cork
* pop out
* pop out cake
* pop over
* popover
* popper
* pop pills
* popping candy
* popping crease
* pop quiz
* pop rivet
* pop round
* pop shield
* pop shop
* pop shot
* pop shove-it
* pop singer
* pop smoke
* pop sock
* pop someone's balloon
* pop someone's cherry
* pop tags
* pop tart
* Pop Tart
* pop the cherry
* pop the question
* pop-top
* pop-under
* pop up
* pop-up, popup
* pop vent
* pop wine
* pop wood
* pudding pop
* skinpop
* soda pop
* what's popping
* wobbly pop

### Etymology 2

From papa or poppa.

#### Noun

pop (plural pops)
* (colloquial, endearing) One's father.
    My pop used to tell me to do my homework every night.

##### Derived terms

* mom and pop
* Pop (US nickname for a stage doorman)
* pop-pop

##### See also

* papa, pa
* pap, paps

### Etymology 3

Clipping of popular or population.

#### Adjective

pop (not comparable)
* (used attributively in set phrases) Popular.

#### Noun

pop (uncountable)
* Pop music.
* Population.
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)

##### Translations
#### Derived terms

* alternative pop
* alt-pop
* AM pop
* art pop
* avant-pop
* baroque pop
* Baroque pop
* bastard pop
* bedroom pop
* Britpop
* Cantopop
* chamber pop
* country pop
* C-pop
* dance pop, dance-pop, dancepop
* dream pop
* electropop
* genpop
* guitar pop
* HK-pop
* H-pop
* indie pop
* Indopop
* I-pop
* jangle pop
* J-pop
* King of Pop
* K-pop
* L-pop
* M-pop
* noise pop
* orchestral pop
* ork-pop
* Pinoy pop
* pop art
* pop chart
* pop culture
* pop feminism
* pop group
* Pop I
* Pop II
* Pop III
* pop metal
* pop music
* pop musician
* pop psych, pop psychology
* pop punk
* pop rock
* pop-sci
* pop-science
* pop song
* pops orchestra
* pop star
* popster
* pop tune
* power pop
* P-pop
* Q-pop
* recession pop
* rep by pop
* sophisti-pop
* sunshine pop
* swamp pop
* symphonic pop
* synth-pop, synthpop
* T-pop
* trap-pop
* twee pop
* vox pop
* V-pop

### Etymology 4

From colloquial Russian поп (pop) and Попъ (Pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Byzantine Greek πάπας (pápas) (see pope). Doublet of pope.

#### Alternative forms

* pope

#### Noun

pop (plural pops)
* (Russian Orthodoxy, uncommon) A Russian Orthodox parish priest.
** 1822, Mikhaïlov Vasiliï, Adventures of Michailow, section 4:There was at that time in the house of the Consul a Pop (or Russian Priest) named Iwan Afanassich.
** 2001, Spas Raïkin, Rebel with a Just Cause, 292 n.28:The contemporary priest's... own children are ashamed and some abusers are openly "transmitting the pop" (a gesture of mocking the priest on the street, where a man would touch his private parts while smiling at other passers-by)
** 2006, Peter Neville, A Traveller's History of Russia, section 123:By the end of 1809 she was declaring to all and sundry that she would sooner marry 'a pop than the sovereign of a country under the influence of France'. Since a pop was a Russian Orthodox parish priest, the reference was hardly likely to endear her family to the French.

### Anagrams

* OPP, Opp, PPO, opp, opp.

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch pop.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

pop (plural poppe, diminutive poppie)
* doll

## Albanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from South Slavic. Compare Bulgarian поп (pop), Serbo-Croatian поп / pȍp.

### Noun

pop m (plural popa) (historical, Northern Albania)
* Orthodox priest

#### Derived terms

* Popaj

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “pop”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 338

### Further reading

* “pop,~i”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980, page 1516b

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpop]

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek πολύπους (polúpous).

#### Noun

pop m (plural pops)
* octopus

##### Alternative forms

* polp

##### Derived terms

* pop blanc
* pop gegant
* pop mesquer
* pop pudent
* pop roquer
* popet

##### See also

* calamars

### Etymology 2

Abbreviation of popular.

#### Adjective

pop (invariable)
* popular

### Further reading

* “pop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “pop”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “pop” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “pop” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pop
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch poppe, from Latin pupa; sense of “cocoon, pupa” from New Latin. The sense “guilder” derived from student slang as a reference to the image of the Dutch Maiden on guilders from 1694 until the early nineteenth century.

#### Noun

pop f (plural poppen, diminutive popje n or poppetje n)
* cocoon, pupa
    Synonym: cocon
* doll
    Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie
* As a term for a girl or woman:
* (often diminutive) A term of endearment: darling, sweetheart
* a pretty girl or young woman
    Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie
** (often derogatory) a girl or woman who wears a lot of make-up
    Synonym: (Belgium) poppemie
* (Netherlands, colloquial) guilder
    Synonym: gulden

##### Derived terms

* babypop
* etalagepop
* handpop
* hofpop
* kloddenpop
* lappenpop
* ledenpop
* modepop
* paspop
* plaspop
* poppedijn
* poppemie
* poppenhoek
* poppenhuis
* poppenkast
* poppenmaker
* poppenmoeder
* poppenspel
* poppenspeler
* poppenstoel
* poppenstront
* poppentheater
* poppenvoorstelling
* poppenwagen
* sneeuwpop
* sokpop
* speculaaspop
* stropop
* taaitaaipop
* trekpop
* vingerpop
* voddenpop
* wajangpop

##### Descendants

* Berbice Creole Dutch: pubiki (from the diminutive form)
* Petjo: pop
* → Indonesian: pop
* → Papiamentu: pòpchi, pouchi (Aruba), poptsje
* → Sranan Tongo: popki (from the diminutive form)
** → Aukan: pobiki
** → Caribbean Hindustani: popki
** → Kari'na: popiki
** → Saramaccan: pobiki

#### Verb

pop
* inflection of poppen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Etymology 2

From English pop, possibly through shortening of popmuziek.

#### Noun

pop f (uncountable)
* pop, pop music

##### Derived terms

* popidool
* poppodium
* poptempel
* popzanger

## Finnish
### Alternative forms

* poppi (noun only)

### Etymology

From English pop.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpop/, [ˈpo̞p]
* Rhymes: -op
* Hyphenation: pop

### Adjective

pop (not comparable)
* (chiefly in compounds) pop (popular)

### Noun

pop
* pop (popular music)

#### Declension

Possessive forms of pop (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
popini
popini
accusative
nom.
popini
popini
gen.
popini
genitive
popini
popieni
partitive
popiani
popejani
inessive
popissani
popeissani
elative
popistani
popeistani
illative
popiini
popeihini
adessive
popillani
popeillani
ablative
popiltani
popeiltani
allative
popilleni
popeilleni
essive
popinani
popeinani
translative
popikseni
popeikseni
abessive
popittani
popeittani
instructive
comitative
—popeineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
popisi
popisi
accusative
nom.
popisi
popisi
gen.
popisi
genitive
popisi
popiesi
partitive
popiasi
popejasi
inessive
popissasi
popeissasi
elative
popistasi
popeistasi
illative
popiisi
popeihisi
adessive
popillasi
popeillasi
ablative
popiltasi
popeiltasi
allative
popillesi
popeillesi
essive
popinasi
popeinasi
translative
popiksesi
popeiksesi
abessive
popittasi
popeittasi
instructive
comitative
—popeinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
popimme
popimme
accusative
nom.
popimme
popimme
gen.
popimme
genitive
popimme
popiemme
partitive
popiamme
popejamme
inessive
popissamme
popeissamme
elative
popistamme
popeistamme
illative
popiimme
popeihimme
adessive
popillamme
popeillamme
ablative
popiltamme
popeiltamme
allative
popillemme
popeillemme
essive
popinamme
popeinamme
translative
popiksemme
popeiksemme
abessive
popittamme
popeittamme
instructive
comitative
—popeinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
popinne
popinne
accusative
nom.
popinne
popinne
gen.
popinne
genitive
popinne
popienne
partitive
popianne
popejanne
inessive
popissanne
popeissanne
elative
popistanne
popeistanne
illative
popiinne
popeihinne
adessive
popillanne
popeillanne
ablative
popiltanne
popeiltanne
allative
popillenne
popeillenne
essive
popinanne
popeinanne
translative
popiksenne
popeiksenne
abessive
popittanne
popeittanne
instructive
comitative
—popeinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
popinsa
popinsa
accusative
nom.
popinsa
popinsa
gen.
popinsa
genitive
popinsa
popiensa
partitive
popiaan popiansa
popejaan popejansa
inessive
popissaan popissansa
popeissaan popeissansa
elative
popistaan popistansa
popeistaan popeistansa
illative
popiinsa
popeihinsa
adessive
popillaan popillansa
popeillaan popeillansa
ablative
popiltaan popiltansa
popeiltaan popeiltansa
allative
popilleen popillensa
popeilleen popeillensa
essive
popinaan popinansa
popeinaan popeinansa
translative
popikseen popiksensa
popeikseen popeiksensa
abessive
popittaan popittansa
popeittaan popeittansa
instructive
comitative
—popeineen popeinensa :
Inflection of pop (type 5*B/risti)
singular
plural
nominative
pop
popit
genitive
popin
poppien
partitive
poppia
poppia
accusative
pop popin
popit
inessive
popissa
popeissa
elative
popista
popeista
illative
poppiin
poppeihin
adessive
popilla
popeilla
ablative
popilta
popeilta
allative
popille
popeille
essive
poppina
poppeina
translative
popiksi
popeiksi
abessive
popitta
popeitta
instructive
popein
comitative
poppeineen :

#### Derived terms

* amispop
* brittipop
* popidoli
* popkulttuuri
* poplaulaja
* poplevy
* pop-musiikki
* popmusiikki
* popmuusikko
* poptaide
* poptaiteilija
* poptähti
* popyhtye

### Further reading

* “pop”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔp/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

pop (feminine pope, masculine plural pops, feminine plural popes)
* pop (popular)

### Noun

pop m (plural pop)
* pop, pop music

#### Synonyms

* musique pop

### Further reading

* “pop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From English pop(ular).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpop]
* Rhymes: -op

### Noun

pop (plural popok)
* (music) pop, pop music

#### Derived terms

* popegyüttes
* popénekes
* popfesztivál
* popzene

### References

* ↑ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈpop/ [ˈpop]
* Rhymes: -op
* Syllabification: pop

### Etymology 1

Clipping of populer.

#### Adjective

pop
* popular

### Etymology 2

From Dutch pop, from New Latin pupa. Doublet of pupa and popi.

#### Noun

pop
* (dialectal or obsolete) Synonym of boneka (“doll”)

### Further reading

* “pop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Jakaltek
### Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *pohp.

### Noun

pop
* reed mat

### References

* Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎ (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 47; 41

## Navajo
### Particle

pop
* (slang) flirting
    Shichʼįʼ nił pop!You’re flirting with me!

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɔp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔp
* Syllabification: pop

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pop music.

#### Noun

pop m inan
* pop music

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Czech pop.

#### Noun

pop m pers
* Eastern Orthodox priest
    Synonym: (colloquial) batiuszka

##### Declension
### Further reading

* pop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* pop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pop.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔ.pi/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔ.pi/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈpɔ.pe/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɔp/

### Noun

pop m (uncountable)
* pop (music intended for or accepted by a wide audience)
    Synonym: música pop

#### Related terms

* popular

## Romanian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English pop.

### Adjective

pop m or f or n (indeclinable)
* (music) pop

#### Declension
### Noun

pop n (uncountable)
* (music) pop, pop music

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pôp/

### Noun

pȍp m (Cyrillic spelling по̏п)
* priest (usually Catholic or Orthodox)

#### Declension
## Slavomolisano
### Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian pop.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pôp/

### Noun

pop m
* priest

#### Declension
### References

* Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 395

## Slovak
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pɔp]

### Etymology 1

Derived from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas), variant of πάππας (páppas, “daddy, papa”).

#### Noun

pop m pers (relational adjective popský or popovský)
* priest (usually Orthodox)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pop.

#### Noun

pop m pers (relational adjective popový)
* pop music, pop

##### Declension
### Further reading

* “pop”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpop/ [ˈpop]
* Rhymes: -op
* Syllabification: pop

### Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English pop.

#### Noun

pop m (plural pops)
* pop, pop music

#### Adjective

pop m or f (masculine and feminine plural pops)
* pop

### Etymology 2

Clipping of popcorn.

#### Noun

pop m (plural pops)
* (Uruguay) popcorn
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:palomita

##### Derived terms

* arte pop

### Further reading

* “pop”, 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

## Swedish
### Noun

pop c
* pop (pop music)
    Synonym: popmusik
** 1965, Thore Skogman, “Pop opp i topp [Pop (up) to the top]”‎performed by Thore Skogman and Lill-Babs:Pop opp [alternative form of upp] i topp, det är toppen i år. Pop, pop, pop opp i topp, pop. Pop opp i topp, så att pulsarna slår. Pop opp i topp, pop.Pop to the top, it's great this year. Pop, pop, pop to the top, pop. Pop to the top, so that the pulses beat. Pop to the top, pop.

#### Derived terms

* afropop
* gitarrpop
* indiepop
* popartist
* popband
* popdänga
* popgala
* popgrupp
* pophit
* popidol
* popikon
* popklassiker
* popklubb
* popkonsert
* popkultur
* poplåt
* popmelodi
* popmusik
* popmusiker
* poppig
* popplatta
* poprock
* poprockare
* popschlager
* popskiva
* popsnöre
* popstjärna
* popsång
* popsångare
* popsångerska
* popvideo
* punkpop
* soulpop
* syntpop

### Noun

pop c
* a pop (Russian Orthodox priest)

#### Declension
### References

* pop in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* pop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* pop in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English Pope.

### Noun

pop
* Pope

## Turkish
### Noun

pop (definite accusative popu, plural poplar)
* pop
* Pop music

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
pop
poplar
definite accusative
popu
popları
dative
popa
poplara
locative
popta
poplarda
ablative
poptan
poplardan
genitive
popun
popların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
popum
poplarım
2nd singular
popun
popların
3rd singular
popu
popları
1st plural
popumuz
poplarımız
2nd plural
popunuz
poplarınız
3rd plural
popları
popları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
popumu
poplarımı
2nd singular
popunu
poplarını
3rd singular
popunu
poplarını
1st plural
popumuzu
poplarımızı
2nd plural
popunuzu
poplarınızı
3rd plural
poplarını
poplarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
popuma
poplarıma
2nd singular
popuna
poplarına
3rd singular
popuna
poplarına
1st plural
popumuza
poplarımıza
2nd plural
popunuza
poplarınıza
3rd plural
poplarına
poplarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
popumda
poplarımda
2nd singular
popunda
poplarında
3rd singular
popunda
poplarında
1st plural
popumuzda
poplarımızda
2nd plural
popunuzda
poplarınızda
3rd plural
poplarında
poplarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
popumdan
poplarımdan
2nd singular
popundan
poplarından
3rd singular
popundan
poplarından
1st plural
popumuzdan
poplarımızdan
2nd plural
popunuzdan
poplarınızdan
3rd plural
poplarından
poplarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
popumun
poplarımın
2nd singular
popunun
poplarının
3rd singular
popunun
poplarının
1st plural
popumuzun
poplarımızın
2nd plural
popunuzun
poplarınızın
3rd plural
poplarının
poplarının :

## Volapük
### Noun

pop (nominative plural pops)
* (obsolete, Volapük Rigik) people, nation

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Synonyms

* pöp (Volapük Nulik)

#### Derived terms

* popik

## Welsh
### Etymology

From English pop.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɔp/
* Rhymes: -ɔp

### Adjective

pop (feminine singular pop, plural pop, not comparable)
* pop (popular)

#### Derived terms

* cân bop
* canu pop
* celfyddyd bop
* cerddoriaeth bop
* pop-gelfyddyd

### Noun

pop m
* pop (pop music)
    Synonym: cerddoriaeth bop

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pop”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## West Frisian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pop/

### Noun

pop c (plural poppen, diminutive popke)
* baby
* doll, dummy, puppet
* dear, darling

#### Further reading

* “pop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011