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pipa

pipa noun: a pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

Noun (1)

pipa (plural pipas)

  1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.

Noun (2) capitalized: PIPA

PIPA (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Participatory impact pathways analysis, a project management approach.

Proper noun capitalized: PIPA

PIPA

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Personal Information Protection Act, part of Canadian privacy law.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Phoenix Islands Protected Area, a marine protected area located in the Republic of Kiribati.
  3. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Program on International Policy Attitudes, an American research institution.
  4. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of PROTECT IP Act, a proposed American law.

pipa meaning in Vietnamese

pipa in Vietnamese

Chinese lute
tì bà

Forms of pipa

pluralpipas
alternative formp'i-p'a

Origin of pipa

From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos.

Questions about pipa

What does pipa mean?
Pipa means a pear-shaped plucked lute from China.
What is pipa in Vietnamese?
Pipa in Vietnamese is tì bà. See Pipa meaning in Vietnamese.
What part of speech is pipa?
Pipa can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of pipa?
The plural of pipa is pipas.

Words near pipa in the dictionary

  1. pip-pip
  2. pip-pip-pip
  3. pip-squeak
  4. pip-squeaks
  5. pip/taz
  6. pipa
  7. pipable
  8. pipacycline
  9. pipage
  10. pipages
  11. pipal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pipa (page history and authors); PIPA (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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