HP

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See also: hp and H&P
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CJK Compatibility
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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Sense "home page" is a borrowing from Japanese HP (home page), from English home + page.

Pronunciation[edit]

IPA(key): /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/

  • (file)

Proper noun[edit]

HP

  1. (India) Abbreviation of Himachal Pradesh, a state of India
  2. The Hewlett-Packard Company
  3. Harry Potter
    • 2009 July 16, Steve Boxer, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, in Guardian[1], Technology news & features, page 2:
      Overall, this is the first HP game to even get near to living up to the quality of JK Rowling's books and the accompanying films.

Noun[edit]

HP (countable and uncountable, plural HPs)

  1. Initialism of hire purchase.
    • 1976, Angela Carter, ‘What the Hell – It’s Home!’, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage 2013, p. 205:
      Everything is practical, sensible, reasonably priced and available on HP.
  2. Initialism of horsepower.
  3. (video games, mostly role-playing games) Hit points; health points.
  4. Initialism of higher power.
  5. Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
  6. Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
  7. Abbreviation of hydrogen peroxide.
  8. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
  9. (Japan) Initialism of home page.

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

  • (hydrogen peroxide): LHP (liquid hydrogen peroxide), HPGP (hydrogen peroxide gas plasma), HPV (hydrogen peroxide vapor), VHP (vaporous hydrogen peroxide), AHP (alkaline hydrogen peroxide)

Translations[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun[edit]

HP

  1. (gaming) hit point(s)

French[edit]

French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology[edit]

Initialism of haut potentiel.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

HP m (plural HPs)

  1. intellectually gifted person
    Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué

German[edit]

Noun[edit]

HP

  1. (apartment listing) Abbreviation of Hochparterre.

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun[edit]

HP (first-person possessive HPku, second-person possessive HPmu, third-person possessive HPnya)

  1. handphone
  2. (video games, mostly role-playing games) hit points; health points

Japanese[edit]

Noun[edit]

HP(ホームページ) (hōmupēji

  1. Initialism of ホームページ (home page).

Polish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

HP n (indeclinable)

  1. The Hewlett-Packard Company
    Mam notebooka z HP.I've got an HP notebook.

Further reading[edit]

  • HP in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • HP in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish[edit]

Noun[edit]

HP m (uncountable)

  1. Acronym of hijoputa.
    Synonym: HDP