IPA

See also: ipa and 'ipa

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌaɪ.piːˈeɪ/, [ˌaɪ.pʰiːˈeɪ]

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪ

Proper noun

IPA

1. Initialism of International Phonetic Alphabet.

   Coordinate terms: extIPA, para-IPA

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎^[1], page 297:

     However, beyond lexis, the Macmillan range includes other adaptations, such as IPA encoding which reflects Indian English pronunciation, and etymologies that distinguish between "tatsama" and "tadbhava" terms, based on McGregor (1992).

   • 2024 June 6, Kirk Miller, “L2/24-171: Miscellaneous historical and para-IPA modifier letters”, in UTC Document Registry‎^[2], page 1:

     Those two proposals included a few retired and para-IPA letters, but consideration of historical and para-IPA modifiers was largely deferred until the IPA could more fully discuss the desired scope of such encoding through the newly established Alphabet, Charts and Fonts Committee. […] By ‘para-IPA,’ we mean symbols that are commonly used within IPA notation but that are not themselves part of the IPA alphabet.

2. Initialism of International Phonetic Association.

   Coordinate term: JIPA

3. Initialism of International Police Association.

Translations

International Phonetic Alphabet

• Afrikaans: IFA (af)
• Arabic: أصد
• Armenian: ՄՀԱ (MHA)
• Asturian: AFI (ast)
• Bashkir: ХАФӘ (XAFƏ)
• Basque: IPA (eu)
• Belarusian: (narkomawka) МФА (MFA), (tarashkevica) МФА (MFA)
• Breton: LFE
• Bulgarian: МФА (bg) (MFA)
• Catalan: AFI (ca)
• Czech: MFA
• Dutch: IFA
• Esperanto: IFA (eo)
• Finnish: IPA (fi)
• French: API (fr)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: YFA

• Galician: AFI (gl)
• German: IPA (de)
• Greek: ΔΦΑ (el) (DFA)
• Hindi: अधव (adhav), अ॰ध॰व॰ (hi) (a.dha.va.)
• Irish: AIF
• Italian: AFI (it), IPA (it)
• Latin: API (la)
• Latvian: SFA
• Lithuanian: TFA (lt)
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: IKS, IFA

• Macedonian: МФА (mk) (MFA)
• Malay: AFA
• Manx: ASE
• Norman: API
• Occitan: AFI
• Pashto: ايي پي اې (ayi-pî-aê)
• Persian: آی‌پی‌آ (ây-pi-â)
• Polish: IPA (pl) f, MAF (pl) m
• Portuguese: AFI (pt)
• Romanian: AFI
• Russian: МФА (ru) (MFA)
• Scots: IPA
• Scottish Gaelic: AEF
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: МФА

  Latin: MFA (sh)

• Sicilian: AFN (scn)
• Silesian: MAF
• Slovak: MFA
• Slovene: MFA
• Sorbian:

  Upper Sorbian: Mfa (hsb) m

• Spanish: AFI (es)
• Tajik: АФБ (AFB)
• Turkish: UFA (tr)
• Ukrainian: МФА (uk) (MFA)
• Volapük: LFB (vo)
• Walloon: AFE
• Welsh: GSR

Noun

IPA (countable and uncountable, plural IPAs)

1. (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl alcohol.
2. (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isophthalic acid.
3. (organic chemistry, uncountable) Initialism of isopropyl acetate.
4. (beer, countable) Initialism of India pale ale.
   • 1998, Pete Slosberg, Beer for Pete's Sake: The Wicked Adventures of a Brewing Maverick, page 128:

     Not bad for an amber or pale ale, but India pale ale, I don't think so. So why does Bass put IPA on the label?

5. Transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
6. An IPA file, or an iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, or tvOS app distributed via IPA files.

Anagrams

• api-, pia, API, IAP, AIP, PIA, Api

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

IPA n (proper noun, strong, genitive IPAs or IPA)

1. initialism of Internationales Phonetisches Alphabet

Declension

Declension of IPA [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	IPA
genitive	eines	des	IPAs, IPA
dative	einem	dem	IPA
accusative	ein	das	IPA

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (acronym) IPA^(key): /ˈi.pa/
• (initialism, rare) IPA^(key): /iˈpe.a/

Noun

IPA

1. acronym of ilmu pengetahuan alam

See also

• FMIPA
• MIPA

Further reading

• “IPA”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English IPA.

Proper noun

IPA ?

1. the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

   Synonym: AFI

Anagrams

• Api, api, pia

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English IPA.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaj ˈpi ˈɛj/, /i‿ˈpɛ ˈa/
• Syllabification: I‧P‧A

Proper noun

IPA f (indeclinable)

1. the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

   Synonym: MAF

Further reading

• IPA in Polish dictionaries at PWN