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p

See also: P, and Appendix:Variations of "p"

p U+0070, p
LATIN SMALL LETTER P
← o
[U+006F] 		Basic Latin q →
[U+0071]
Character variations

ᵖ U+1D56, ᵖ
MODIFIER LETTER SMALL P
← ᵕ
[U+1D55] 		Phonetic Extensions ᵗ →
[U+1D57]
𝆏 U+1D18F, 𝆏
MUSICAL SYMBOL PIANO
← 𝆎
[U+1D18E] 		Musical Symbols 𝆐 →
[U+1D190]
ｐ U+FF50, ｐ
FULLWIDTH LATIN SMALL LETTER P
← ｏ
[U+FF4F] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms ｑ →
[U+FF51]
Languages (49)
Translingual • English
Azerbaijani • Basque • Central Mazahua • Demotic • Dutch • Egyptian • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Finnish • French • Fula • Gothic • Hawaiian • Heiltsuk • Hungarian • Icelandic • Ido • Italian • Kankanaey • Kashubian • Kiowa • Latin • Latvian • Livonian • Malay • Maltese • North Frisian • Norwegian • Nupe • Polish • Portuguese • Romani • Romanian • Scottish Gaelic • Serbo-Croatian • Silesian • Skolt Sami • Spanish • Swedish • Tagalog • Turkish • Turkmen • Welsh • Yele • Yoruba • Zulu
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Translingual

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p (upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

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  • Pronunciation of IPA [pɑː, ɑppɑː] with the sound [p]:(file)

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p

  1. (IPA) a voiceless bilabial plosive.
  2. (superscript ⟨ᵖ⟩, IPA) [p]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [p]-release (e.g. ⟨kᵖ⟩ for [k͡p]), [p]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [p].
  3. (physics) pressure
  4. (music) piano (play softly)
  5. (chemistry) power of; the negative logarithm of a concentration, as in pH or pOH
  6. (physics) proton
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  • Letter styles
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    Uppercase and lowercase versions of P, in normal and italic type
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    Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

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Other representations of P:

English

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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p (lower case, upper case P, plural ps or p's)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.
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Number

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2

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Abbreviations

Alternative forms

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  • (page, per): p.

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Preposition

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p

  1. Abbreviation of post, meaning after
  2. Abbreviation of per.
  3. (stenoscript) Abbreviation of up.
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Noun

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p

  1. Alternative form of p.; Abbreviation of page (plural pp)
  2. (UK) Abbreviation of penny; pence.
    • 2001, Steve Webb, Intensity-modulated radiation therapy:
      The 25p stamp shows an ultrasound image, the 35p stamp shows a magnetic resonance image and the 41p stamp shows an X-ray CT image.
  3. (physics) proton
  4. (video compression) Abbreviation of progressive scan.
    • 2010, Benny Bing, 3D and HD Broadband Video Networking, page 59:
      HD video may contain 720 or 1080 vertical progressive scan lines (720p or 1080p), 1080 interlaced lines (1080i), and is capable of displaying a 16:9 image and output digital audio.
  5. (New Zealand, slang) Methamphetamine
  6. Abbreviation of piss (“urine”).
    I'll slurp all that p.
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page — see p.

Verb

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p

  1. (knitting) Abbreviation of purl.
    • 1855, Godey's Magazine, volume 51, page 71:
      Knit 3, p 1, k 2, purl 1, k 2, m 1, k 2 together, k 1.

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p (not comparable)

  1. (Internet) Abbreviation of pretty (as an intensifier)
    I'm doing p good, how are you?
    • 1995 November 8, Scott Morgan <s_morgan delphi.com>, "Re: F-18 Sim", message-ID <hZMk7Re.s_morgan@delphi.com>, comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim, Usenet [1]:
      There is no campaign, just a bunch of canned missions that have no relation to each other (and peole[sic] think SU27 is p bad!).
  2. (chiefly US, stenoscript) Alternative spelling of p.m. (“post meridiem”) or pm

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Azerbaijani

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p lower case (upper case P)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Basque

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

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Central Mazahua

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p (upper case P)

  1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

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Demotic

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Noun

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 ⁠ ⁠ ⁠  f

  1. Alternative form of p.t (“sky”)

Dutch

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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  • Previous letter: o
  • Next letter: q

Egyptian

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Noun

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p
Z1

 m

  1. mat

Inflection

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Declension of p (masculine)
singular p
dual pwj
plural pw

Noun

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p
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 m

  1. plinth

Inflection

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Declension of p (masculine)
singular p
dual pwj
plural pw

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p
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  m./f. topo.

  1. Pe, a city in Lower Egypt, where the Pharaohs were crowned.

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p

 m sg proximal demonstrative determiner

  1. (Old Egyptian) Alternative form of pj (“this”)

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Old Egyptian demonstratives
determiners pronouns1 adverbs
number singular dual plural unmarked
gender masculine feminine masculine feminine masculine feminine unmarked
proximal to speaker pn
 tn
 *jpnj
 jptnj, jptntj
 jpn
 jptn
 nn
 —
distal pf
 tf
 *jpfj
 *jptfj, *jptftj
 jpf
 jptf
 nf
 —
proximal to spoken of pj, pw, p
 tj, tw
 jpwj
 jptwj, jptwtj
 jpw
 jptw, jptwt
 nw
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vocative pꜣ
 tꜣ
 —
 —
 —
 —
 nꜣ
 ꜥꜣ
  1. Unmarked for number and gender, but treated syntactically as masculine plurals when used with participles and relative forms, and as feminine singulars when referred to by resumptive pronouns.
Middle Egyptian demonstratives
determiners and pronouns adverbs
number singular plural1
gender masculine feminine unmarked
proximal pn
 tn
 nn
 ꜥn
distal pf, pfꜣ
 tf, tfꜣ
 nf, nfꜣ
 ꜥf
‘copula’ and vocative pw, pwy
 tw, twy
 nw
 —
anaphoric pꜣ
 tꜣ
 nꜣ
 ꜥꜣ
  1. Joined by n(j) to nouns they modify.
Late Egyptian demonstratives and articles
masculine feminine plural adverb
pronoun pꜣw
 dj
determiners and pronouns pꜣj
 tꜣj
 nꜣj
possessive determiners1 pꜣy
 tꜣy
 nꜣy
relational pronouns (‘possessive prefixes’) p-n, pꜣ
 t-nt, tꜣ
 nꜣyw, nꜣ
definite articles pꜣ
 tꜣ
 nꜣ2
indefinite articles wꜥ2
 nhꜣy2
  1. Used with suffix pronouns.
  2. Originally joined by n(j) to nouns they modify; later without it.

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Esperanto

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called po and written in the Latin script.

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Estonian

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  • Letter name: IPA(key): /ˈpeː/

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

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Faroese

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p (upper case P)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Finnish

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Etymology

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The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and p for information on the development of the glyph itself.

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

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p

  1. Abbreviation of penni. (Finnish penny, no longer used)

French

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Fula

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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Gothic

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Romanization

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p

  1. Romanization of 𐍀

Hawaiian

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Alternative forms

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  • (letter name) pī

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  • (letter name) IPA(key): /ˈpiː/
  • (phoneme) /p/

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p

  1. The eleventh letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Heiltsuk

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p (upper case P)

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

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Hungarian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): [ˈp]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): [ˈpeː]

Letter

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called pé and written in the Latin script.
Declension
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Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative p p-k
accusative p-t p-ket
dative p-nek p-knek
instrumental p-vel p-kkel
causal-final p-ért p-kért
translative p-vé p-kké
terminative p-ig p-kig
essive-formal p-ként p-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive p-ben p-kben
superessive p-n p-ken
adessive p-nél p-knél
illative p-be p-kbe
sublative p-re p-kre
allative p-hez p-khez
elative p-ből p-kből
delative p-ről p-kről
ablative p-től p-ktől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		p-é p-ké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		p-éi p-kéi
Possessive forms of p
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. p-m p-im
2nd person sing. p-d p-id
3rd person sing. p-je p-i
1st person plural p-nk p-ink
2nd person plural p-tek p-itek
3rd person plural p-jük p-ik

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Etymology 2

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Noun

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p (plural p-ek)

  1. Abbreviation of perc (“minute[s]”).
    Coordinate terms: ó, mp
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative p p-ek
accusative p-et p-eket
dative p-nek p-eknek
instrumental p-cel p-ekkel
causal-final p-ért p-ekért
translative p-cé p-ekké
terminative p-ig p-ekig
essive-formal p-ként p-ekként
essive-modal — —
inessive p-ben p-ekben
superessive p-en p-eken
adessive p-nél p-eknél
illative p-be p-ekbe
sublative p-re p-ekre
allative p-hez p-ekhez
elative p-ből p-ekből
delative p-ről p-ekről
ablative p-től p-ektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		p-é p-eké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		p-éi p-ekéi
Possessive forms of p
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. p-em p-eim
2nd person sing. p-ed p-eid
3rd person sing. p-e p-ei
1st person plural p-ünk p-eink
2nd person plural p-etek p-eitek
3rd person plural p-ük p-eik

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  • p in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

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  • (letter name) IPA(key): /pʰjɛː/

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p (upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Ido

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  • (context pronunciation) IPA(key): /p/
  • (letter name) IPA(key): /pe/

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p (upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Italian

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p f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case P)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

Kankanaey

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Tagalog p. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English p.

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  • (letter name) IPA(key): /pi/ [pi̞]
    • Rhymes: -i
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /p/ [p̚]

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

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  • Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy‎[2] (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Kashubian

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Etymology

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The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Kiowa

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p (upper case P)

  1. A letter of the Kiowa alphabet.

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Latin

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p

  1. The letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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  • p in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “p”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

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Etymology

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Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

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P

p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called pē and written in the Latin script.

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Livonian

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p (upper case P)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Malay

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Maltese

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  • IPA(key): /p/
  • IPA(key): /b/ (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)
  • With very few exceptions, this letter occurs only in borrowings.

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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North Frisian

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  • IPA(key): [pʰ~p] (generally)
  • IPA(key): [b̥] (Sylt, when intervocalic in an unstressed syllable, merges with ⟨b⟩)

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p (lower case, upper case P)

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

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Norwegian

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p

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Nupe

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Polish

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Etymology

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The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

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p (upper case P, lower case)

  1. The twenty-second letter of the Polish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

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Portuguese

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romani

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. (International Standard) The twentieth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-first letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Romanian

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called pe or pî and written in the Latin script.

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Scottish Gaelic

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by o and followed by r. Its traditional name is beith bhog (“soft birch”).

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Serbo-Croatian

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  • P (uppercase)

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p (Cyrillic spelling п)

  1. The 22nd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by o and followed by r.

Silesian

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Etymology

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The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt Sami

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p (upper case P)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Spanish

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Swedish

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Spanish p. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English p.
  • Abakada alphabet pronunciation is influenced by Baybayin character ᜉ (pa).
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish p.

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈpi/ [ˈpi] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -i
    • IPA(key): /ˈpa/ [ˈpa] (letter name, Abakada alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -a
    • IPA(key): /ˈpe/ [ˈpɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
      • Rhymes: -e
    • IPA(key): /p/ [p] (phoneme)

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p (lower case, upper case P, Baybayin spelling ᜉᜒ)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called pi and written in the Latin script.
  2. (historical) The nineteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called pe and written in the Latin script.

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p (lower case, upper case P, Baybayin spelling ᜉ)

  1. The fourteenth letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abakada alphabet), called pa and written in the Latin script.
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Etymology 2

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From the Abakada alphabet letter p being pronounced as pa.

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p (Baybayin spelling ᜉ) (Internet slang, text messaging)

  1. Abbreviation of pa: yet; still
    d2 s daan p
    Still here at the road.

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  • “p”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

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Turkmen

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p (upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

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Welsh

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The twentieth letter of the Welsh alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by o and followed by ph.

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Mutated forms of prawf
radical soft nasal aspirate
prawf brawf mhrawf phrawf

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “p”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yele

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p (upper case P)

  1. A letter of the Yele alphabet.

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There are digraphs for palatalized ⟨py⟩, labialized ⟨pw⟩, and labio-palatalized ⟨pyw⟩.

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Yoruba

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  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /k͡p/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /k͡pí/

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called pí and written in the Latin script.

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Zulu

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p (lower case, upper case P)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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