paper

paper (absolutive indefinite)
papera (absolutive indefinite singular)
paperak (absolutive indefinite plural)
paperek (ergative indefinite)
paperak (ergative indefinite singular)
paperek (ergative indefinite plural)
paperi (dative indefinite)
paperari (dative indefinite singular)
paperei (dative indefinite plural)
paperen (genitive indefinite)
paperaren (genitive indefinite singular)
paperen (genitive indefinite plural)
paperekin (comitative indefinite)
paperarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
paperekin (comitative indefinite plural)
paperengatik (causative indefinite)
paperarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
paperengatik (causative indefinite plural)
paperentzat (benefactive indefinite)
paperarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
paperentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
paperez (indefinite instrumental)
paperaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
paperez (indefinite instrumental plural)
paperetan (indefinite inessive)
paperean (indefinite inessive singular)
paperetan (indefinite inessive plural)
paperetako (indefinite locative)
papereko (indefinite locative singular)
paperetako (indefinite locative plural)
paperetara (allative indefinite)
paperera (allative indefinite singular)
paperetara (allative indefinite plural)
paperetaraino (indefinite terminative)
papereraino (indefinite singular terminative)
paperetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
paperetarantz (directive indefinite)
papererantz (directive indefinite singular)
paperetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
paperetarako (destinative indefinite)
papererako (destinative indefinite singular)
paperetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
paperetatik (ablative indefinite)
paperetik (ablative indefinite singular)
paperetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
paperik (indefinite partitive)
papertzat (indefinite prolative)


paper

From Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus and suffixed with -er.


paper

paperyow (plural)
paper (unmutated)
baper (soft)
faper


paper

(informal) paper (short essay or research document), particularly a research paper

nl-noun

paper m or n (plural papers, diminutive papertje n)

papers (plural)
papertje (diminutive neuter)

Unadapted borrowing from English paper. Doublet of papier.


paper

Draw on the paper! Not on the walls!

He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

A sheet material typically used for writing on or printing on (or as a non-waterproof container), usually made by draining cellulose fibres from a suspension in water.

Read all about it in this morning's paper!

"I don't want to spoil any comparison you are going to make," said Jim, "but I was at Winchester and New College." ¶ "That will do," said Mackenzie. "I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal.[…]."

1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter II, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC:

“Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”

1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:

However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!

2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:

A newspaper or anything used as such (such as a newsletter or listing magazine).

There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:

(rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

A written document, generally shorter than a book (white paper, term paper), in particular one written for the Government.

A written document that reports scientific or academic research and is usually subjected to peer review before publication in a scientific journal (as a journal article or the manuscript for one) or in the proceedings of a scientific or academic meeting (such as a conference, workshop, or symposium).

This paper surveys the research methods and approaches used in the multidisciplinary field of applied language studies or language education over the last fourty^([sic]) years. Drawing on insights gained in psycho- and sociolinguistics, educational linguistics and linguistic anthropology with regard to language and culture, it is organized around five major questions that concern language educators.

2014 January 24, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 30:

(British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.

Why might not a Government annuity, the Principal of which was originally invested in Paper since the Cash suspension in 1797, be constituted the guarantee of Paper Money, emendating from that investiture and suspension, and the Parliament authority transferred to its security, as it has been to its creation, in preference to all others, while Paper continues our general Medium.

1812, William Major, Theory of Money and Exchanges, page XV:

[…] three millions and a half specie in its vaults, and nearly six millions invested in paper, loans, discounts, pledges […]

1859, The Bankers' Magazine, and Statistical Register, page 244:

(finance, uncountable) Any financial assets other than specie.

a paper of pins, tacks, opium, etc.

A paper packet containing a quantity of items.

cantharides paper

A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application.

A substance resembling paper secreted by certain invertebrates as protection for their nests and eggs.

(dated) Free passes of admission to a theatre, etc.

(dated, by extension) The people admitted by free passes.

en-noun

paper (countable and uncountable, plural papers)

Tok Pisin: pepa
→ Rotokas: pepa

→ Dutch: paper

→ Eastern Arrernte: pipe

→ Esperanto: papero
Ido: papero

→ Hawaiian: pepa

→ Japanese: ペーパー (pēpā)

→ Malayalam: പേപ്പർ (pēppaṟ)

→ Maori: pepa

→ Marshallese: peba

→ Mokilese: peipa

→ Niuean: pepa

→ Scottish Gaelic: pàipear

→ Southern Ndebele: iphepha

→ Spanish: paper

→ Swazi: líphepha

→ Xhosa: iphepha

→ Yoruba: bébà, pépà

→ Zulu: iphepha

харти́я

open hand in the game of rock paper scissors

From Middle English paper, from Anglo-Norman paper, from Old Catalan paper, borrowed from Latin papȳrus (and given the Catalan suffix -er), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros).


paper

paper bag; paper plane

At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.

1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

paper tiger; paper gangster

2016: Manila Standard, "Speed limiter law: A paper tiger"; Maricel Cruz
Speed limiter law: A paper tiger

2016: The Australian, "China says Australia ‘is no paper tiger, only a paper cat at best’"; Rowan Callick
It concluded that Australia was “not even a paper tiger, it’s only a paper cat at best”

Insubstantial (from the weakness of common paper)

paper rocket; paper engine

We have to be able to demonstrate that it is not just a paper engine but a real engine

2015, Flight Global, “Airbus Helicopters to begin Arrano tests for H160 shortly”, in Dominic Perr:

2015: CBS News, "ULA unveils new rocket to replace Russian boosters"; William Harwood
In a background teleconference hosted by SpaceX late last week, an unnamed official dismissed ULA's new booster as a "paper rocket," saying he doubted it would be significantly cheaper than ULA's current stable of launchers.

2010: BBC News, "Pratt & Whitney eyes global plane engine deals"; Jorn Madslien
Ours is not a paper engine... these are real engines that are in production today

"The Ares 1 is a paper rocket that's far off in the future," Musk said. "Falcon 9 is a real rocket, most of which is at Cape Canaveral right now."

2010, Spaceflight Now, “Musk refutes report slamming safety standards”, in Stephen Clark:

Planned (from plans being drawn up on paper)

a paper baron; a paper lord

Having a title that is merely official, or given by courtesy or convention.

indicated by forming compounds with paber-: paper flower: paberlill

indicated by forming compounds with Papier-: paper bag: Papierbeutel


paper

to paper the hallway walls

After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up.

(transitive) To document; to memorialize.

Later, seat-filling or “papering” services cropped up, with organizations like Audience Extras, Play-by-Play, […]

2020, Kelly Kessler, Broadway in the Box, page 198:

(transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.

As powerhouse lawyers shuttled to Cuba to meet clients and papered the federal courts with habeas corpus petitions, Guantanamo's isolation and lack of publicity, once the military's most powerful psychological weapon, was eliminated.

2006, Drusilla Modjeska, The Best Australian Essays 2006:

[…] the warning received only six weeks later for poor attendance as proof that the employer was unjustly papering his personnel file in an effort to create a reason for discharge.

2007, Thomas M. Hanna, The Employer's Legal Advisor: Handling Problem Employees Effectively ...:

(transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).

(transitive) To give public notice (typically by displaying posters) that a person is wanted by the police or other authority.

To paste the endpapers and flyleaves at the beginning and end of a book before fitting it into its covers.

(Northeastern US) To cover someone's house with toilet paper. Otherwise known as toilet papering or TPing.

en-verb

paper (third-person singular simple present papers, present participle papering, simple past and past participle papered)

papers (present singular third-person)
papering (participle present)
papered (participle past)
papered (past)


paper

second/third-person singular present indicative

inflection of papērt:
third-person plural present indicative

inflection of papērt:
second-person singular imperative

(with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of papērt

(with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of papērt


paper

paper (thin, white writing surface made of wood pulp)

A message or note; something that is written.

desctree

English: paper
Tok Pisin: pepa
→ Rotokas: pepa
→ Dutch: paper
→ Eastern Arrernte: pipe
→ Esperanto: papero
Ido: papero
→ Hawaiian: pepa
→ Japanese: ペーパー (pēpā)
→ Malayalam: പേപ്പർ (pēppaṟ)
→ Maori: pepa
→ Marshallese: peba
→ Mokilese: peipa
→ Niuean: pepa
→ Scottish Gaelic: pàipear
→ Southern Ndebele: iphepha
→ Spanish: paper
→ Swazi: líphepha
→ Xhosa: iphepha
→ Yoruba: bébà, pépà
→ Zulu: iphepha

Scots: paper

→ Welsh: papur


paper

Aragonese: papel

Borrowed from Old Catalan paper. Attested from ca. 1400.


paper

paper (sheet material typically used for writing on or printing)

Catalan: paper

→ Navarro-Aragonese: paper, papel
Aragonese: papel

→ Old French: papier (see there for further descendants)

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: papel
Fala: papel
Galician: papel
Portuguese: papel (see there for further descendants)

→ Old Spanish: papel
Spanish: papel (see there for further descendants)

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin papyrus, adapted to the Catalan suffix -er (< Latin -ārius). First attested in 1249, soon after the Catalans became the first Europeans to control a paper mill by capturing the one in Xàtiva from the Moors.


paper

fro-noun

paper oblique singular, m (oblique plural papers, nominative singular papers, nominative plural paper)

paper oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
papers (oblique plural)
papers (nominative singular)
paper (nominative plural)


paper

Ej, ty paprze! Nie tacy byli.

Hey, you rapscallion! They weren't like that.


paper

Hay varios papers recientes sobre el efecto de la regularización del acceso a opioides en Estados Unidos [...]

2020 July 23, Juan Felipe Vélez, “Colombia discute la legalización y comercialización de la cocaína”, in PanAm Post:

There are some recent papers on the effect of the regularization of access to opioids in the United States …

paper (written document that reports scientific or academic research)

Unadapted borrowing from English paper. Doublet of papel.