hapa
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Hawaiian hapa, from English half.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hapa (plural hapas)
- (Hawaii, California) A person of mixed ethnic heritage, especially half East or Southeast Asian or Pacific Islander and half white.
- 2016 August 8, Akemi Johnson, “Who Gets To Be 'Hapa'?”, in NPR[1]:
- It's what my fiancé and I call ourselves, and how we think of the children we might have: second-generation hapas.
But as the term grows in popularity, so does debate over how it should be used. Some people argue that hapa is a slur and should be retired.
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]hapa (plural hapas)
- A mesh cage-like structure placed in the water to hold fish.
- 2015, M. Chakroff, P. Corps, Freshwater Fish Pond Culture and Management, page 148:
- Usually one female is placed into a hapa with two males to insure that fertilization occurs.
Hawaiian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hapa
- half of something
- someone who has Hawaiian ancestry mixed with another ethnicity
Descendants
[edit]- → English: hapa
Ingrian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈhɑpɑ/, [ˈhɑpɑ]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈhɑpɑ/, [ˈhɑb̥ɑ]
- Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
- Hyphenation: ha‧pa
Adjective
[edit]hapa (comparative hapemp)
- Alternative form of hapan (“sour”)
- 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by P. I. Maksimov and N. A. Iljin, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun neljättä klaassaa vart (toine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 103:
- Höö kantoivat hartijoil burdjukkoja — hapal maijool, airanaal täytettyjä säkkijä lampaan nahast.
- They carried burdjuks — sacks made of sheep skin filled with ayran, sour milk.
Declension
[edit]Declension of hapa (type 3/kana, no gradation, gemination) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | hapa | hapat |
genitive | hapan | happoin |
partitive | happaa | hapoja |
illative | happaa | happoi |
inessive | hapas | hapois |
elative | hapast | hapoist |
allative | hapalle | hapoille |
adessive | hapal | hapoil |
ablative | hapalt | hapoilt |
translative | hapaks | hapoiks |
essive | hapanna, happaan | hapoinna, happoin |
exessive1) | hapant | hapoint |
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive. |
References
[edit]- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 40
Maori
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hapa
- tea (meal)
References
[edit]- “hapa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Sotho
[edit]Verb
[edit]hapa
- to win
Swahili
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hapa
Adverb
[edit]hapa
West Makian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]hapa
References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[2], Pacific linguistics
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