sapo

See also: sapo-, säpo, Sapo, Säpo, and SÄPO

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sāpō, English soap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsapo]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -apo
• Hyphenation: sa‧po

Noun

sapo (accusative singular sapon, plural sapoj, accusative plural sapojn)

1. soap

Derived terms

• orienta sapherbo
• sapa
• saparbo
• sapeca
• sapherbo
• sapi
• sapigi
• sapŝtono
• sapujo
• sapumi
• ŝaŭmsapo
• ŝmirsapo
• tualetsapo

 

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Galician

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈs̺apʊ]

Noun

sapo m (plural sapos)

1. toad

   Synonyms: costro, coucou

2. Ancient amulet against sorcery in the form of a small bag with one esconxuro (incantation, spell) inside.

Derived terms

• Sapeira

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Indonesian

Etymology

Unknown, possibly from Japanese しゃぶしゃぶ (shabushabu); onomatopoeic, resembling the sound emitted when the ingredients are stirred in the pot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsapo]
• Hyphenation: sa‧po

Noun

sapo (first-person possessive sapoku, second-person possessive sapomu, third-person possessive saponya)

1. hot pot, (pot and meal)

Further reading

• “sapo” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

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Latin

Etymology

From Frankish *saipā, from Proto-Germanic *saipǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *seyp- (“to pour out, trickle, strain”). Cognate with Old English sāpe (“soap, salve”), Old English sāp (“amber, resin, pomade, unguent”), Latin sēbum (“tallow, grease”). More at soap.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsaː.poː/, [ˈs̠äːpoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.po/, [ˈsäːpo]

Noun

sāpō m (genitive sāpōnis); third declension

1. soap

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sāpō	sāpōnēs
Genitive	sāpōnis	sāpōnum
Dative	sāpōnī	sāpōnibus
Accusative	sāpōnem	sāpōnēs
Ablative	sāpōne	sāpōnibus
Vocative	sāpō	sāpōnēs

Derived terms

• sāpōnātum

Descendants

• Balkan-Romance:
  • Aromanian: sãpuni, sãpune
  • Romanian: săpun
• Dalmatian:
  • Dalmatian: sapaun
• Italo-Romance:
  • Corsican: savone, sapone, savonu, saponu
  • Italian: sapone
    • → Hungarian: szappan
  • Gallurese: savoni, saoni
  • Sicilian: sapuni
    • → Maltese: sapun (partly)
• Padanian:
  • Emilian: savon
  • Friulian: savon
  • Ligurian: savon, saon, san, son
  • Lombard: saon, savon
  • Piedmontese: savon, saon
  • Romagnol: savon
  • Romansch: savun, savung, savùn
  • Venetian: saon, savon
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: savon
  • Old French: sapon, sabon, savon
    • Middle French: savon
      • French: savon
        • → Hebrew: סבון (sabón)
        • → Malagasy: savony
        • → Koyraboro Senni: saafun
        • → Vietnamese: xà phòng, xà bông
        • → Tai Dam: ꪎꪱꪡ꫁ꪮꪉ
        • → Wolof: saabu
        • → Zarma: saafun
      • → Breton: saon, soavon
  • Norman: savon
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: sabón, xabon
  • Old Catalan: sabon
    • Catalan: sabó
  • Old Occitan: sabon
    • Occitan: sabon (all dialects)
  • Gascon, Auvergnat, Limousin: sablon
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: xabón, xaón
    • Extremaduran: jabón
    • Leonese: xabón
    • Mirandese: xabon
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: sabon, sabõ
    • Galician: xabón, xabrón
    • Portuguese: sabão
      • → Okinawan: サフン (safun)
      • →? Min Nan: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
        • → Amis: safon
        • → Kavalan: sabun
        • → Puyuma: sabun
        • → Tsou: savungu
  • Old Spanish: xabon
    • Ladino:

      Hebrew script: שאבון

      Latin script: shavón

    • Spanish: jabón, xabon (obsolete)
      • → Aymara: jawuna
      • → Basque: xaboi
      • → Bikol Central: sabon
      • → Binukid: sabun
      • → Cebuano: sabon
      • → Chamicuro: shawona
      • → Southern Ohlone: hawun
      • → Cuyunon: sabon
      • → Guaraní: havõ
      • → Hiligaynon: habon
      • → Ilocano: sabon
      • → Isthmus Zapotec: xabú
      • → Malay: sabun (see there for further descendants)
      • → Mayo: saábom
      • → Mecayapan Nahuatl: xapo̱n
      • → Mezquital Otomi: xabo
      • → O'odham: ṣawoñ
      • → Papiamentu: habon
      • → Tagalog: sabon
      • → Waray-Waray: sabon
      • → Japanese: シャボン (shabon)
      • → Okinawan: サフン (safun)
      • →? Min Nan: 雪文 (sap-bûn)
        • → Amis: safon
        • → Kavalan: sabun
        • → Puyuma: sabun
        • → Tsou: savungu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: sabone, saboni, saoni
  • Sassarese: saboni
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: sapun
  • → Ancient Greek: σᾱ́πων (sā́pōn)
    • → Classical Syriac: ܨܦܘܢܐ
      • → Arabic: صَابُون (ṣābūn) (see there for further descendants)
    • → Greek: σάπων (sápon)
    • → Georgian: საპონი (saṗoni)
    • → Middle Persian: *sābōn
      • Persian: صابون (sâbun)
      • Tajik: собун (sobun)
    • → Old Armenian: սապոն (sapon)
      • Middle Armenian: սապոն (sapon)
    • ⇒ Koine Greek: σαπώνιον (sapṓnion) (diminutive)
      • Byzantine Greek: σαπούνιν (sapoúnin)
        • Greek: σαπούνι (sapoúni)
          • → Bulgarian: сапун (sapun)
          • → Romani: saûni
        • Mariupol Greek: сапо́н (sapón)
  • → Proto-Celtic:
    • Cornish: seban
    • Manx: sheeabin
    • Scottish Gaelic: siabann
    • Welsh: sebon
  • → Macedonian: сапун (sapun)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: сапун

    Latin script: sapun

See also

• sebum

References

• “sapo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sapo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sapo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “sapo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sapo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sapu.

Verb

sapo

1. to rub

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Portuguese

sapo (Alytes cisternasii)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sapo, of unknown origin. Possibly from Iberian.

Cognate with Galician sapo, Mirandese sapo, Asturian sapu, Spanish sapo, Aragonese zapo and Basque apo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pu/

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.po/
• Hyphenation: sa‧po
• Rhymes: -apu

Noun

sapo m (plural sapos)

1. toad (amphibian in Anura with drier skin)

Coordinate terms

• rã
• perereca

Derived terms

• engolir sapo
• sapinho
• sapo-aranzeiro
• sapo-boi

• sapo-cachorro
• sapo-concho
• sapo-conqueiro
• sapo-cururu

• sapo-de-unha-preta
• sapo-do-mar
• sapo-e-cobra
• sapo-ferreiro

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Spanish

Etymology

Unknown, possibly from Iberian [Term?], cognate with Basque apo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapo/ [ˈsa.po]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

sapo m (plural sapos, feminine sapa, feminine plural sapas)

1. toad
2. (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, colloquial) a very curious person
3. (Chile, Ecuador, Peru, colloquial) a voyeur

   Synonym: mirón

4. (Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, colloquial, derogatory) informer

   Synonyms: informante, chivato

5. (Mexico) flapper valve

Derived terms

• ir de sapo
• salga sapo o salga rana
• sapo de caña
• sapo veranero

 

Related terms

• sapa
• sapear

Descendants

• → San Juan Atzingo Popoloca: cosápo

See also

• rana f
• renacuajo m, ranacuajo m

Anagrams

• aspo
• paso
• poas
• posa
• sopa

Further reading

• “sapo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Tagalog

Etymology 1

Compare sapupo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧po
• IPA^(key): /saˈpo/, [sɐˈpo]
• Rhymes: -o

Adjective

sapó

1. held or supported carefully with the palms of one's hands

   Synonyms: sapupo, salo, hawak, hawak-hawak

2. supported with a prop

   Synonyms: may-tukod, may-salo, may-sapo, salo-salo

Derived terms

• isapo
• may-sapo
• pagsapo
• pasapo
• sapo-sapo
• sapuhin

 

Noun

sapó

1. act of supporting or carrying by the palm of the hands

   Synonyms: sapupo, pagsapupo, salo, hawak

2. temporary undersupport (to prevent from collapsing)

Etymology 2

Compare pupo.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧po
• IPA^(key): /saˈpoʔ/, [sɐˈpoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ

Noun

sapô

1. (botany) banana tree stump (after being cut down)
2. overflowing of water on the road or field

See also

• sakwa
• tinampayakan

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧po
• IPA^(key): /saˈpo/, [sɐˈpo]
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

sapó

1. ochre; ocher; red earth
2. red ochre used in polishing gold surfaces
3. metallic coating or gilding

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: sa‧po
• IPA^(key): /ˈsapo/, [ˈsaː.po]
• Rhymes: -apo

Noun

sapo

1. small cobweb usually found on low grasses with clinging drops of dew (especially in the early morning)

References

• “sapo” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎^[1], Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “sapo”, in Pinoy Dictionary, 2010–2024
• “sapo” in Tagalog-English Dictionary, TAGALOG LANG, 2007.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[2] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎^[3] (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot