hp

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hp"

English

Alternative forms

• HP

Noun

hp (plural hp)

1. Abbreviation of horsepower (unit of power).
   • 2024 April 3, Joe Holding, Rebecca Braybrook, “What do DRS, black and white flag, porpoising and more mean? F1 terms explained”, in Autosport‎^[1]:

     The ERS can generate an extra 160hp for around half a minute per lap.

Translations

horsepower

• Catalan: CV (ca) m
• Czech: ks (cs)
• Danish: hk
• Dutch: pk (nl)
• Estonian: hj
• Finnish: hv (fi)
• French: ch (fr), cv (fr)
• German: PS (de)
• Hungarian: LE (hu)
• Italian: CV (it)
• Macedonian: КС (KS)
• Norwegian: hk
• Polish: KM (pl)
• Portuguese: CV (pt)
• Romanian: CP
• Russian: л.с. f (l.s.)
• Serbo-Croatian: KS
• Slovak: ks (sk)
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} KM
• Spanish: CV (es) m
• Swedish: hk (sv)
• Turkish: BG (tr)

Anagrams

• P&H, PH, Ph, ph

Egyptian

Pronunciation

 

• (reconstructed) IPA^(key): /hip/ → /hip/ → /hep/ → /hep/

• (Old Egyptian, c. 2350 BCE) IPA^(key): /hip/
• (Middle Egyptian, c. 1700 BCE) IPA^(key): /hip/
• (Amarna-period Late Egyptian, c. 1350 BCE) IPA^(key): /hep/
• (Late Egyptian, c. 800 BCE) IPA^(key): /hep/

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: hep

Noun

 m

1. cord used for determining guidelines in construction
2. law, ordinance
   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 22–23:

     šfyt ḥtp.n.s st.s fꜣw mn(.w) r hpw.f

     Dignity, it has taken its seat, and magnificence is established according to his laws.

3. statute, written rule or law
4. (rare) norm, wont, custom

Inflection

Declension of hp (masculine)

singular	hp
dual	hpwj
plural	hpw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hp  

hꜣp	hp
[New Kingdom]	[Greco-Roman Period]
in hieratic

Descendants

• Demotic Egyptian: hp
  • Coptic: ϩⲁⲡ (hap)

References

• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1928), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 488.7–489.2
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 158
• van der Molen, Rami (2000), A Hieroglyphic Dictionary of Egyptian Coffin Texts, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 297

Jingpho

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/

Letter

hp (upper case Hp)

1. A letter of the Jingpho alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Osage

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pː, ʰp/

Letter

hp (mixed case Hp, upper case HP)

1. A letter of the Osage Latin alphabet. Osage script 𐓭.

Spanish

Noun

hp m or f by sense (plural hps)

1. (Internet slang, text messaging, chiefly Colombia) abbreviation of hijoputa

Related terms

• hdp