píopa

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish pípa, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō. Doublet of píb.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲiːpˠə/

Noun

píopa m (genitive singular píopa, nominative plural píopaí)

1. pipe (hollow tube; tobacco pipe; large container; computing character)

Declension

Declension of píopa

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative píopa píopaí Vocative a phíopa a phíopaí Genitive píopa píopaí Dative píopa píopaí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an píopa na píopaí Genitive an phíopa na bpíopaí Dative leis an bpíopa don phíopa leis na píopaí

Derived terms

• cró píopa (“bore of pipe”)
• gásphíopa, píopa gáis (“gas pipe”)
• píopa adhmaid (“briar-pipe”)
• píopa báistí (“rain-pipe”)
• píopa béil (“flue-pipe”)
• píopa bóthair (“pipe, drainage-channel, under road”)
• píopa bréantais (“stench-pipe”)
• píopa cailce, píopa cré (“clay pipe”)
• píopa fíona (“pipe of wine”)
• píopa fuíll (“waste-pipe”)
• píopa ionsúiteach (“induction pipe”)
• píopa seirbhíse (“service-pipe”)
• píopa soirn (“stove-pipe”)
• píopa soláthair (“supply-pipe”)
• píopa taosctha (“drain-pipe”)
• píopa tobac (“tobacco-pipe; pipeful of tobacco”)
• píopa uisce (“water-pipe”)

 

Related terms

• do phíopa a chaitheamh (“to smoke one's pipe”)
• do phíopa a dheargadh (“to light one's pipe”)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “píopa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pípa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language