impo

Onomatopoeic. Compare Spanish hipo.

• empio, ipio, ipo

• IPA^(key): [ˈimpʊ]

impo m (plural impos)

1. hiccup

   Synonym: salouco

• ampear
• impar

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “impo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “impo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “impo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

impo

1. first-person singular present indicative of impar

• Hyphenation: im‧po

Deverbal from impar.

impo m (plural impos)

1. (regional) act or effect of crying or breathing with difficulty
2. (regional) hiccups that children get after crying

impo

1. first-person singular present indicative of impar

Either from the following:

• From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əmpu (“grandparent/grandchild (recipr.); ancestor; lord, master, owner”); compare Malay punya (“owner; to have”).^[1]
• From Hokkien, possibly 引婆 (ín-pô),^[2][3] or 姆婆 (ḿ-pô)^[4] recorded in the Dictionario Hispanico Sinicum (1626-1642) as “ìn pō” and “m̄ pō”.^[4]

Zorc (1985) records both etymologies but finds the Chinese etymology as less likely.^[5]

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔimˈpo/ [ʔɪmˈpo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: im‧po

impó (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜋ᜔ᜉᜓ)

1. grandmother

   Synonyms: lola, lelang, abwela, (archaic) agwela, (dialectal) inana, inang-tanda, inda-poon

• “impo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018