pab

• IPA^(key): [pab]

pab (nominative plural pabs)

1. (inclusive term) butterfly or moth (compare German Falter)
2. butterfly (compare German Tagfalter)
3. moth (compare German Nachtfalter)

• delapab
• neitapab

• bien
• näsäk
• näsäkav

From Middle Welsh pap, from Proto-Brythonic *pab, from Vulgar Latin *păpa form Latin pāpa.

• IPA^(key): /paːb/
• Rhymes: -aːb

pab m (plural pabau)

1. (Roman Catholicism) pope

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

Borrowed from Middle Chinese 幫 (MC pang, “to help, assist”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pa˥/

pab

1. to help, aid, assist, serve, support

   Kuv pab nws sau ntawv. ― I help him write.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.