pā

pā

1. Rōmaji transcription of パー
2. Rōmaji transcription of ぱぁ

pā (pa¹, Zhuyin ㄆㄚ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啪
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 夿
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 妑
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 扒
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 派
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 皅
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 舥
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 芭
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 葩
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蚆
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 趴

From Proto-Polynesian *pa (“enclosure”). Cognates include Hawaiian pā and Rapa Nui pā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː/

pā

1. to touch, strike, hit (as by a stone), tag, affect
2. to reach
3. to be connected with, relate to, pertaining to, regarding
4. to be heard, reach one's ears, hold personal communication with
5. to blow (as the wind)
6. to participate, act together, act in concert, join in (an undertaking)
7. to have sex
8. to block up

pā

1. fortified place
2. fortified village, usually on steep-sided raised ground that facilitates defence and affords good view of approaching attackers, such as a hilltop, promontory or small island
3. screen or blockade
4. clump, group or flock
5. contact (netball, etc.)

• “pā” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• peiṃ; pein

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pʲæ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pʲæj/
• Bender phonemes: {pay}

pā

1. arm; hand
2. wing
3. fin

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

From Proto-Polynesian *pa (“enclosure”). Cognates include Hawaiian pā and Maori pā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpaː/
• Hyphenation: pā

pā

1. (transitive) to encircle

• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 29