Papa

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affectionate for father in Latin and various Romance languages
- hence, Pope in various languages
- also, Papar (Culdees), Irish monks
- many languages (often unrelated) have words with labial consonants and open vowels as their word for "father" and "mother"; /papa/ is just one example. A discussion of this phenomenon can be found in the article Mama and papa.
- some people also refer to their grandfathers as "papa".
P in the NATO phonetic alphabet
Papa class submarine
pāpa in Sanskrit, the concept of sin in Hinduism
Potato in Spanish, in some dialects slang for "food"

people:

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), nickname
Nick "Papa" Kho, former professional pick-up artist and part owner in the pick-up and seduction company Real Social Dynamics
Papa Bouba Diop (born 1978), a football (soccer) player from Senegal.
Rav Papa (?-375), a Babylonian Amora from the Talmud
Papa, a monk martyred with Abda and Abdjesus
François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, former President of Haiti.

in music:

Papa Was a Rollin' Stone, a song by Motown songwriters Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for The Undisputed Truth, famously covered by The Temptations in 1973.
Papa Don't Preach, a song by Madonna from her 1986 album True Blue.
Pa-Pa, a song by Finnish band The Rasmus from their album Hell of a Tester from 1998.

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See also