HP

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hp"

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eɪt͡ʃˌpiː/

• Audio (Canada):

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Proper noun

HP

1. Initialism of Himachal Pradesh: a state of India.
2. Initialism of Hewlett-Packard.
3. Initialism of 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.

Derived terms

• HP-UX

Noun

HP (countable and uncountable, plural HPs or HP)

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, chiefly roleplaying games, plural usually HP) Initialism of hit point / health point.
   • 1995, Ape Inc., HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:

     If you stay at a hotel, you'll wake up with full HP and PP.

   • 2004 May 10, Ken Andrews, “The Accursed”, in rec.games.frp.dnd‎^[2] (Usenet):

     When struck by Good-aligned divine energy damage, the Accursed loses 1 HP off of its maximum HP for each 5 points of damage done.

   • 2008 November 15, Janis Papanagnou, “YASD: What To Do With a Potion of Blindness”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack‎^[3] (Usenet):

     But mind that with less HPs your two-hit limit that you mention below is significantly more difficult to achieve.

4. Initialism of higher power.
5. Initialism of Houses of Parliament.
6. Initialism of Helicobacter pylori.
7. Initialism of hydrogen peroxide.

   Synonyms: H₂O₂, HPO, PO

8. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea) Initialism of handphone.
9. (Japan) Initialism of home page.
10. Initialism of horizontal pitch.

Derived terms

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

Translations

horse power — see hp

(video games) hit point — see hit point

Anagrams

• P&H, PH, Ph, ph

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun

HP

1. (gaming) hit point(s)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aʃ.pe/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

HP m (plural HPs)

1. initialism of haut potentiel (“intellectually gifted person”)

   Synonyms: haut potentiel, surdoué

2. initialism of hôpital psychiatrique
   • 2018, Constance Debré, chapter 12, in Play boy, Paris: Stock, →ISBN, part 3, page 165:

     Le HP, c'est sa petite thalasso, ça le retape toujours. Je passe le voir deux fois par semaine.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

German

Noun

HP

1. (apartment listing) abbreviation of Hochparterre

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈhape/ [ˈha.pe]
• Rhymes: -ape

Noun

HP (plural HP-HP)

1. HP:
   1. initialism of English handphone.

      Synonyms: hape, telefon bimbit (Malay), telepon genggam, telepon seluler

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

      Synonyms: darah, telap

2. (mathematics) initialism of himpunan penyelesaian (“solution set”)
3. (forestry) initialism of hutan produksi (literally “production forest”)
4. (management) initialism of hari penugasan (literally “assignment day”)

Further reading

• “HP”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Noun

HP(ホームページ) • (hōmupēji) 

1. initialism of ホームページ (“home page”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxa ˈpɛ/

• Audio:

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Proper noun

HP n (indeclinable)

1. The Hewlett-Packard Company

   Mam notebooka z HP. ― I've got an HP notebook.

Further reading

• “HP”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “HP”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)

Spanish

Etymology 1

Noun

HP m (uncountable)

1. acronym of hijoputa

   Synonym: HDP

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English HP.

Noun

HP m (uncountable)

1. (video games) HP