napa

From the regional and colloquial Japanese term 菜っ葉 (nappa, “leaves of any vegetable”).

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napa (countable and uncountable, plural napas)

1. Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis, a kind of Chinese cabbage.

• celery cabbage
• napa cabbage

• APAn, Pana, apan, paan

From Proto-Finnic *napa, borrowed from Proto-Baltic [Term?], or alternatively and less likely from Proto-Germanic *nabō, but in either case ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nebʰ- (“navel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɑpɑ/, [ˈnɑ̝pɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): na‧pa

napa

1. (anatomy) navel, belly button/bellybutton
2. pole (extreme of an axis; magnetic or electrical pole)
3. pivot (that on which something turns)

   Synonym: keskipiste

4. head (central part of propeller)

   Synonym: keskiö

5. (in compounds) polar

• “napa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (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

• apan, paan

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *nup ~ nip. Cognate with Tibetan ནུབ (nub, “to fall (gradually), sink, to set; to decay, to decline”) and Chinese 入 (rù, “to enter”).

napa (intransitive)

1. enter, go in, come in
2. set (of the sun and moon)

• -nap-

From Proto-Finno-Ugric or Proto-Uralic *anɜ (anɜppɜ) (“mother-in-law”);^[1][2] later also attested as nap (now obsolete; unrelated to Hungarian nap (“sun; day”)).

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɒpɒ]
• Hyphenation: na‧pa
• Rhymes: -pɒ

napa (uncountable)

1. (folksy, archaic) mother-in-law

   Synonym: anyós

   Coordinate term: ipa

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	napa	—
accusative	napát	—
dative	napának	—
instrumental	napával	—
causal-final	napáért	—
translative	napává	—
terminative	napáig	—
essive-formal	napaként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	napában	—
superessive	napán	—
adessive	napánál	—
illative	napába	—
sublative	napára	—
allative	napához	—
elative	napából	—
delative	napáról	—
ablative	napától	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	napáé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	napáéi	—

Possessive forms of napa
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	napam	—
2nd person sing.	napad	—
3rd person sing.	napa	—
1st person plural	napunk	—
2nd person plural	napatok	—
3rd person plural	napuk	—

or

Possessive forms of napa
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	napám	—
2nd person sing.	napád	—
3rd person sing.	napája, napaja	—
1st person plural	napánk	—
2nd person plural	napátok	—
3rd person plural	napájuk, napajuk	—

• napa in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• napa in Czuczor, Gergely and János Fogarasi: A magyar nyelv szótára (“A Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”). Pest: Emich Gusztáv Magyar Akadémiai Nyomdász, 1862–1874.

From Proto-Finnic *napa. Cognates include Finnish napa and Estonian naba.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑpɑ/, [ˈnɑpɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑpɑ/, [ˈnɑb̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Hyphenation: na‧pa

napa

1. navel
2. Short for napapuu.

Declension of napa (type 3/kana, p-v gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	napa	navat
genitive	navan	nappoin
partitive	nappaa	napoja
illative	nappaa	nappoi
inessive	navas	navois
elative	navast	navoist
allative	navalle	navoille
adessive	naval	navoil
ablative	navalt	navoilt
translative	navaks	navoiks
essive	napanna, nappaan	napoinna, nappoin
exessive1)	napant	napoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 331

napa

1. tooth

• IPA^(key): /ˈnapa/ [ˈna.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: na‧pa

napa f (plural napas)

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napa m or f by sense (plural napas)

1. (Habbo, derogatory) a noob

• “napa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

napa

1. (interrogative) what