palapa

Borrowed from Spanish palapa, from Tagalog palapa, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaqpaq.

palapa (plural palapas)

1. An open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves.
   • 2008 January 11, Beth Greenfield, “Fishing Boats, Surfboards and Not a High-Rise in Sight”, in New York Times‎:

     At the average home price, you can find a two- or even three-bedroom house with a pool and palapa.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaqpaq (“midrib of coconut leaf”).

• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧pa
• IPA^(key): /paˌlaʔˈpaʔ/, [paˌl̪aʔˈpaʔ]

palâpâ

1. midrib of a banana leaf or coconut frond

Learned borrowing from Old Javanese pālapa.

• IPA^(key): /pa.la.pa/
• Rhymes: -pa
• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧pa

palapa (plural palapa-palapa, first-person possessive palapaku, second-person possessive palapamu, third-person possessive palapanya)

1. bitter fruit
2. Palapa oath
3. (uncountable) Indonesia's first domestic communications satellite, launched in 1976.

• “palapa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

palapa

1. Alternative spelling of pālapa

palapa

1. Alternative spelling of pālapa

Borrowed from Tagalog palapa (“midrib of a banana leaf or large palm frond”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaqpaq (“midrib of a coconut frond”).[1]

• IPA^(key): /paˈlapa/ [paˈla.pa]

palapa f (plural palapas)

1. (Mexico) a thatched roof
2. (Mexico) an open structure with a thatched roof, palapa

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *palaqpaq (“midrib of a coconut frond”). Compare Kapampangan palapa, Bikol Central palapa, Pangasinan palapa, Maguindanao palapa, Malay pelepah, Iban pelepah, Tongan palalafa.

• IPA^(key): /paˈlapaʔ/, [pɐˈla.pɐʔ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧la‧pa

palapà (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜎᜉ)

1. (botany) the pulpy midrib or petiole of a banana leaf or coconut palm frond or leaf of a similar tree

   Synonyms: balaba, pintal

• “palapa” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “palapa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Panganiban, José Villa (1973) Diksyunaryo-Tesauro Pilipino-Ingles, Quezon City: Manlapaz Publishing Co.
• Blust, Robert, Trussel, Stephen (2010–) “*palaqpaq”, in The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary