napas

napas

1. plural of napa

• APAns, NASPA, Panas, Sapan, apans, paans, pasan, sapan

Borrowed from Indonesian napas (“breath”).

napas

1. to breathe

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnapas]

napas

1. second-person singular imperative of napást

• nafas: nonstandard Indonesian, standard Malay

From Malay nafas, napas, from Classical Malay نفس (nafas), نفس (napas), from Arabic نَفَس (nafas, “breath”). The phoneme -f- was changed to -p- to suit phonological inventories of local languages which lack -f-. In fact, both forms napas and nafas in practice are often acceptable due to influence of the Arabic word.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnä.päs]
• Hyphenation: na‧pas
• Rhymes: -as

napas (first-person possessive napasku, second-person possessive napasmu, third-person possessive napasnya)

1. breath,
   1. (uncountable) the act or process of breathing.
   2. (countable) a single act of breathing in or out.

      Sang dokter mengambil dua napas panjang. ― The doctor took two deep breaths.

   3. (uncountable) air expelled from the lungs.

napas

1. fulvous

• → Amahai: napas

napas

1. breath

napas f pl

1. plural of napa

napas m pl or f pl by sense

1. plural of napa

Borrowed from Malay nafas, from Arabic نَفَس (nafas, “breath”).

napas

1. breath