pa'

• pai, par

Apocopic form of par, from earlier pal.

• IPA^(key): /pa/

pa'

1. for

   Lu mondu è cussì mannu chi v’è loggu pa' tutti ― The world is so big that there's room for everyone

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Un cuntaddu [A Tale]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 47:

     […] timendi
     pa’ lu figlioru inchiétu […]

     fearing for the anxious son

2. because of, due to

   È capitaddu pa' cùipa tóia ― It's your fault it happened (literally, “It has happened for your fault”)

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Lu vedru a pezzi [The Shattered Glass]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 39:

     […] la casa
     véccia chi trimurendi è pa’ lu ventu

     The old house, which is trembling because of the wind

3. in order to, to

   Pa' fà la bagna, vi vo' la pummatta ― You need tomatoes to make sauce

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia [Poem]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:

     un’oasi prupizia pa’ pudé
     cu lu pientu annittavvi da li fàuri
     chi vi sò già incighendi.

     A propitious oasis, so I can cleanse you with my tears from the lies that are already blinding you.

     (literally, “A propitious oasis, in order to be able to cleanse you with my tears from the lies that are already blinding you.”)

4. in, on

   Mi n'andaba in giru pa' la ziddai ― I was going around town

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Puisia [Poem]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 19:

     […] si n’anda
     muru muru pa’ la ziddài ciambadda
     in un inferru di ghiacciu […]

     He, along the walls, goes around the town, changed into an icy hell

5. through
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Ulisse [Ulysses]”, in La poesia di l'althri, Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 51:

     I la me’ giubintura navigaddu
     aggiu pa’ tanti mari. […]

     In my youth, I've sailed through many seas.

6. as

   Cosa vuraristhi pa' primmu piattu? ― What would you like as the main course?

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

• pa

pa'

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of para
   • 2018, “Sin Pijama”, in Mala Santa, performed by Becky G & Natti Natasha:

     Si tú me llamas, nos vamos pa’ tu casa / Nos quedamo’ en la cama / Sin pijama, sin pijama

     If you call me / Let's go to your home / We'll stay in the bed / Without pijama, without pijama