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pipa

“pipa” is a Swedish word. Its 10 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a pipe (smoking tool)
  2. the barrel of a gun
  3. the hollow tube of a bone
  4. a pipe (wind instrument)
  5. a whistle (short for visselpipa)
  6. a pipe (of an organ)
  7. pipes (singing voice)
  8. a pipa (type of Chinese lute)
  9. a pipe (an old unit of fluid measure, in Sweden equal to 470 liters or 124 US gallons)

verb

  1. to yield a high sound or tone; squeak, peep, beep

Etymology

From Old Norse pípa. Doublet of pip.

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