"pipa" meaning in English

See pipa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: pipas [plural]
Etymology: From Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá). Doublet of bipa and biwa, and possibly barbat and barbitos. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|cmn|琵琶|tr=pípá}} Mandarin 琵琶 (pípá), {{doublet|en|bipa|biwa}} Doublet of bipa and biwa Head templates: {{en-noun}} pipa (plural pipas)
  1. A pear-shaped plucked lute from China. Translations (Chinese lute): pipa [masculine] (Catalan), 琵琶 (alt: pei⁴ paa⁴; pei⁴ paa⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 琵琶 (pípa) (Chinese Mandarin), pipa (Finnish), 琵琶 (english: biwa, biba) (Japanese), ピーパー (pīpā) (Japanese), пипа (pıypa) (Kazakh), 비파 (bipa) (alt: 琵琶) (Korean), ᡶᡳᡶᠠᠨ (fifan) (Manchu), pipa [feminine] (Polish), пи́па (pípa) [feminine] (Russian), tì bà (Vietnamese)
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Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.