p

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

• Pronunciation of IPA [pɑː, ɑppɑː] with the sound [p]:

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Symbol

p

2. (IPA) a voiceless bilabial plosive.
3. (superscript ⟨ᵖ⟩, IPA) [p]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [p]-release (e.g. ⟨kᵖ⟩ for [k͡p]), [p]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [p].
5. (physics) pressure
7. (music) piano (play softly)
9. (chemistry, in combination) power of; the negative logarithm of a concentration, as in pH or pOH
11. (physics) proton

    Coordinate terms: n, e

Gallery

• Letter styles
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  Uppercase and lowercase versions of P, in normal and italic type
• 
  Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

See also

• (IPA): b (“voiced bilabial plosive”)
• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter P):  Ṕṕ  Ṗṗ  Ᵽᵽ  Ƥƥ  P̃p̃  ᵱ  ᶈ  ᴘ  Ｐｐ  ȹ
• With hook: ƥ
• ƿ (wynn)

Other representations of P:

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Abbreviations

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/, [pe̞]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The seventeenth letter of the Basque alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpe]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) písmeno; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Č č, D d, Ď ď, E e, É é, Ě ě, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ó ó, P p, Q q, R r, Ř ř, S s, Š š, T t, Ť ť, U u, Ú ú, Ů ů, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Z z, Ž ž

Noun

⁠⁠⁠ f

1. Alternative form of p.t (“sky”)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eː
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /peː/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Dutch alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• Previous letter: o
• Next letter: q

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛ/
  • Conventional anglicization: pe

Noun

 m

1. mat

Noun

 m

1. plinth

Proper noun

  m./f. topo.

1. Pe, a city in Lower Egypt, where the Pharaohs were crowned.

Determiner

 m sg proximal demonstrative determiner

1. (Old Egyptian) Alternative form of pj (“this”)

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/; before a voiced obstruent, IPA^(key): /b/

• Audio:

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Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The twentieth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called po and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• Letter name: IPA^(key): /ˈpeː/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Estonian alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Faroese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and p for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

• Audio; “pee, pappi, ripaus, pee”:

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Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Noun

p

1. Abbreviation of penni. (Finnish penny, no longer used)

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pe/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The fifteenth letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. A letter of the Fula alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Romanization

p

1. Romanization of 𐍀

Alternative forms

• (letter name) pī

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː/
• (phoneme) /p/

Letter

p

1. The eleventh letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Further reading

• p in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pʰjɛː/

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. The twentieth letter of the Icelandic alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bókstafur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Þ þ, Æ æ, Ö ö

Pronunciation

• (context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p/
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pe/

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

p f or m (invariable, lower case, upper case P)

1. The fourteenth letter of the Italian alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

Etymology

Borrowed from Tagalog p. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English p.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pi/ [pi̞]
  • Rhymes: -i
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/ [p̚]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

References

• Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016) Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎ (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. A letter of the Kiowa alphabet.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ai ai, Au au, Aui aui, B̶ b̶, B b, D̶ d̶, D d, E e, G̶ g̶, G g, H h, I i, K k, Kʼ kʼ, L l, M m, N n, n̶, O o, Oi oi, P p, Pʼ pʼ, S s, T t, Tʼ tʼ, Ts ts, Tsʼ tsʼ, U u, Ui ui, W w, Y y, Z z, ꞉

Letter

p

1. The letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

References

• "p", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “p”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p]

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Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called pē and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Livonian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) kēratēd̦; A a, Ā ā, Ä ä, Ǟ ǟ, B b, D d, D̦ d̦, E e, Ē ē, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ī ī, J j, K k, L l, Ļ ļ, M m, N n, Ņ ņ, O o, Ō ō, Ȯ ȯ, Ȱ ȱ, Õ õ, Ȭ ȭ, P p, R r, Ŗ ŗ, S s, Š š, T t, Ț ț, U u, Ū ū, V v, Z z, Ž ž

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/
• IPA^(key): /b/ (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)
• With very few exceptions, this letter occurs only in borrowings.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The twentieth letter of the Maltese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) ittra; A a, B b, Ċ ċ, D d, E e, F f, Ġ ġ, G g, Għ għ, H h, Ħ ħ, I i, Ie ie, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Ż ż, Z z

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pʰ~p] (generally)
• IPA^(key): [b̥] (Sylt, when intervocalic in an unstressed syllable, merges with ⟨b⟩)

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (North Frisian letters): a, ä, å, ā, b, c, d, đ, e, ē, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, o, ö, p, r, s, t, u, ü, v, w (q, x, y, z)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /peː/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

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Letter

p

1. The sixteenth letter of the Norwegian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛ/

Letter

p (upper case P, lower case)

1. The twenty-second letter of the Polish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The sixteenth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. (International Standard) The twentieth letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.
2. (Pan-Vlax) The twenty-first letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

1. The nineteenth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called pe or pî and written in the Latin script.