píopa

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish pípa, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō. Doublet of píb.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpʲiːpˠə/

Noun

píopa m (genitive singular píopa, nominative plural píopaí)

  1. pipe (hollow tube; tobacco pipe; large container; computing character)

Declension
Declension of píopa

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative píopa píopaí
Vocative a phíopa a phíopaí
Genitive píopa píopaí
Dative píopa píopaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an píopa na píopaí
Genitive an phíopa na bpíopaí
Dative leis an bpíopa

don phíopa

 leis na píopaí

Derived terms
  • cró píopa (“bore of pipe”)
  • gásphíopa, píopa gáis (“gas pipe”)
  • píopa adhmaid (“briar-pipe”)
  • píopa báistí (“rain-pipe”)
  • píopa béil (“flue-pipe”)
  • píopa bóthair (“pipe, drainage-channel, under road”)
  • píopa bréantais (“stench-pipe”)
  • píopa cailce, píopa cré (“clay pipe”)
  • píopa fíona (“pipe of wine”)
  • píopa fuíll (“waste-pipe”)
  • píopa ionsúiteach (“induction pipe”)
  • píopa seirbhíse (“service-pipe”)
  • píopa soirn (“stove-pipe”)
  • píopa soláthair (“supply-pipe”)
  • píopa taosctha (“drain-pipe”)
  • píopa tobac (“tobacco-pipe; pipeful of tobacco”)
  • píopa uisce (“water-pipe”)
  • do phíopa a chaitheamh (“to smoke one's pipe”)
  • do phíopa a dheargadh (“to light one's pipe”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
píopa phíopa bpíopa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "píopa" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “píopa” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • “pípa” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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