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Borrowed from Latin sapa.

sapa (uncountable)

1. A reduction of must in Ancient Roman cuisine, made by boiling down grape juice or must in large kettles until reduced to a third of the original volume.

• carenum
• defrutum

• AAPS, AAPs, APAs, ASAP, PAAs, PaaS, asap

• sapaha

• IPA^(key): /sa.pá/

sapa (Kana spelling サパ)

1. (anatomy) head

• IPA^(key): /sapə/
• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

Cognate of Javanese ꦱꦥ (sapa, “who (ngoko)”), Indonesian siapa (“who”).

sapa (Balinese script ᬲᬧ)

1. who

From Sanskrit शाप (śāpa, “curse”).

sapa (Balinese script ᬰᬵᬧ)

1. curse

• “sapa”, in Balinese–Indonesian Dictionary [Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia] (in Balinese), Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].

From Proto-Austronesian *sapaq.

• (Standard Cebuano) IPA^(key): /ˈsapaʔ/ [ˈs̪a.pɐʔ]

sapa

1. a small river; a creek

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *sapaq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapaʔ/ [ˈsa.paʔ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

sapà (Basahan spelling ᜐᜉ)

1. a stream
2. a creek, brook

   Synonym: sulong

• IPA^(key): /saˈpaʔ/ [saˈpaʔ]
• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

sapâ (Basahan spelling ᜐᜉ)

1. munch

Borrowed from Hiligaynon sapa (“stream”), from Proto-Austronesian *sapaq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapaʔ/, [ˈsa.paʔ] (Cotabateño)

• IPA^(key): /saˈpaʔ/, [saˈpaʔ] (Zamboangueño)
• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

sapà

1. (Cotabateño, Zamboangueño) stream; creek

   Synonym: (Caviteño, Ternateño) esteros

From Proto-Austronesian *sapaq.

sapa

1. creek

From Proto-Austronesian *sapaq.

sapa

1. stream; creek

sapa

1. bubble; foam

From Proto-Finnic *sapa. Related to Estonian saba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑpɑ/, [ˈs̠ɑ̝pɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Syllabification^(key): sa‧pa
• Hyphenation^(key): sa‧pa

sapa (dialectal)

1. tail of an animal (more specifically the solid part of a tail)

• asap, aspa

• IPA^(key): /sa.pa/
• Homophones: sapas, sapât

sapa

1. third-person singular past historic of saper

From Proto-Austronesian *sapaq.

IPA^(key): /saˈpaʔ/ [saˈpaʔ]

• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

sapâ

1. stream; creek

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pa/
• Rhymes: -pa, -a
• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

Inherited from Malay sapa. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

sapa (plural sapa-sapa)

1. greeting

   Synonym: salam

sapa

1. (colloquial) who

   Synonym: siapa

sapa (comparative lebih sapa, superlative paling sapa)

1. nonstandard form of safa (“white”)

• “sapa”, 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

From Latin sapa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsa.pa/
• Rhymes: -apa
• Hyphenation: sà‧pa

sapa f (plural sape)

1. must (fruit juice) cooked and concentrated by boiling, used as a condiment

• saba

• aspa

sapa

1. romanization of ꦱꦥ

sapa

1. black

From Proto-Italic *sapā, from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”). Compare the English cognate sap.

sapa f (genitive sapae); first declension

1. A reduction of must in Ancient Roman cuisine, made by boiling down grape juice or must in large kettles until reduced to a third of the original volume.

First-declension noun.

• “sapa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sapa”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "sapa", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sapa”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Akin to Maranao sapa'.

sapa

1. to swear

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapa/ [ˈsa.pa]
• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈsapə/ [ˈsa.pə]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

sapa (plural sapa-sapa or sapa²)

1. greeting

   Synonym: salam

sapa (Jawi spelling ساڤ)

1. To greet

   Synonym: tegur

Syncopic form of siapa.^[1]

sapa

1. (colloquial) Who.

   Alternative form: sape (schwa-variety)

• "sapa" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

sapa

1. water

• Studies in Philippine Linguistics, volume 2 (1978), section on Mamanwa, pages 81-82

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑː.pæ/

sapa

1. (slang) This is a Nigerian slang term used to express a state of poverty or financial incapacity.

   I no get money because sapa don hook me. / I don't have money because sapa has hit me.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• IPA^(key): /sa.pa/
• Rhymes: -pa
• Homophones: sāpa, śāpa
• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

Cognate Indonesian sapa (“to greet”).

sapa

1. address, speak, greet

• Javanese: ꦱꦥ (sapa, “to greet”)

sapa

1. alternative spelling of syapa (“who (interrogative pronoun)”)

• "sapa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

sapa

1. imperative active second-person singular of sapati (“to swear”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapa/

sapa f (plural sape)

1. hoe

Back-formation from sapka.

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) IPA^(key): [ˈsa.pa]

sapa f

1. (Chełmno, medicine) augmentative of sapka

• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887), “sapa”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 141

sapa

1. every, each, any
2. alone, only, unique, one and only

• sapay
• sapa inka

sapa

1. (grammar) singular

• IPA^(key): /ˈsapa/ [ˈsa.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: sa‧pa

Feminine form of sapo (“toad”).

sapa f (plural sapas)

1. female equivalent of sapo: a female toad or peeper

Borrowed from Latin sapa.

sapa f (plural sapas)

1. a reduction of must in Ancient Roman cuisine, made by boiling down grape juice or must in large kettles until reduced to a third of the original volume

• “sapa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *sapaq (“stream; river”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsapaʔ/ [ˈsaː.pɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -apaʔ
• Syllabification: sa‧pa

sapà (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜉ)

1. small stream; rivulet; brook; creek

• saog
• ilog-ilugan
• batis

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /saˈpa/ [sɐˈpa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧pa

sapá (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜉ)

1. chewing into a pulp

   Synonyms: ngata, pagngata

2. pulp or residue of something chewed

   Synonyms: sapal, bagas, bagaso, pinamangusan

3. chewed betel pepper

• asap, pasa

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /sapa/ [saˈpa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: sa‧pa

sapa (Sulat Sūg spelling سَفَ)

1. oath

• IPA^(key): /saˈpa/
• Hyphenation: sa‧pa

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish صاپه (sapa, “out of a straight road or direction, on one side, secluded”),^[1] from Ottoman Turkish صاپمق (sapmaḳ, “to swerve, to deviate, to diverge, to go astray”), from Proto-Turkic *sap- (“to leave the way, to go astray, to deviate”),^[2][3] morphologically sap- +‎ -a.

sapa

1. Away from the centre, secluded, remote; off the beaten path.

   Synonyms: kuytu, tenha, ücra

2. Out of the main road, accessed by deviating to a side road.

From sap (“handle, stem”) +‎ -a (dative suffix)

sapa

1. dative singular of sap

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sapa

1. third-person singular optative of sapmak

• “sapa”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “sapa”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4064

From Proto-Austronesian *sapaq.

sapâ

1. brook; rivulet; creek

sapa

1. blood

Borrowed from Romance, ultimately from Latin sappa; compare Italian zappa, Portuguese sapa (“shovel”), Spanish zapa (“shovel”),

sapa (unclassified holonym; singulative sapa a, dual sapa kipë, plural sapa pë)

1. hoe

• Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017), Yanomama Clause Structure‎^[3], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 115

From sà (“to apply”) +‎ ipá (“force”).

IPA^(key): /sā.k͡pá/

sapá

1. to endeavour; to make an effort; to strive

   Synonym: gbìyànjú

   Òbí rẹ̀ ti sapá gidigidi láti pèsè oúnjẹ fún un. ― Her parents have tried so hard to provide food for her.

• ìsapá (“effort”)