pepe
- Alternative spelling ofpipe
FromLatinpiper, fromAncient Greekπέπερι(péperi,“pepper”), viaMiddle Persian from anIndo-Aryan source.
pepe m (pluralpepi)
- (seasonings)pepper
CompareTagalogpipi(“mute; dumb”).
- IPA(key): /ˈpepe/,[ˈpʰɛ.pʰɛ]
- Hyphenation:pe‧pe
pepe (Lontara spellingᨄᨙᨄᨙ)
- mute,dumb,deaf-mute
- Taupepe ―Mute person
- speechless
- A. A. Cense (2024)Makassaars-Nederlands woordenboek[2], Brill,→DOI
FromProto-Oceanic*kau-bebek (compare withRarotonganpepe,Tahitianpepe,Samoanpepe,Tonganpepe)[1] ultimately fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian *ali-baŋbaŋ compare with (Tagalogalibangbang,Ilocanoalibangbang) affixing*baŋbaŋ (compare withMalaykulimambang,Javanesebambang,Acehnesebambang)[2][3]
pepe
- anylepidopterans includingbutterflies andmoths
pepe
- toflutter
- tofrisk, tofrolic
- tostumble,hesitate orstutter (in speech, reciting etc)
- ^Pond, Wendy (1983) “Solving A Linguistic Murder With The Aid of Entomology”, inThe Wētā[1], volume 6, number 1, The Entomological Society of New Zealand, page 7
- ^Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “pepe”, inPOLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011)The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4, Animals, Canberra: Australian National University,→ISBN,→OCLC, pages377-9
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “pepe”, inA Dictionary of the Maori Language, page322
- “pepe” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011,→ISBN.
pepe
- stool
pepe
- butterfly
pepe
- astray(in a wrong direction)
CompareMalaypepek.
pepè (Baybayin spellingᜉᜒᜉᜒ)(childish)
- vagina
- Synonyms:puke,pekpek
- Coordinate term:titi
- The wordpepe occurs only in childish settings, and does not appear in medical and formal settings. It is less vulgar thanpuke andpekpek.
pepe
- butterfly (daytime)
pepe
- butterfly.
