paypay

• Hyphenation: pay‧pay
• IPA^(key): /ˈpajpaj/ [ˈpaɪ̯.pɐɪ̯]

paypay

1. fan

paypay

1. to fan
2. to hang out to dry

   Synonym: hayhay

Borrowed from Tagalog paypay (“fan”).

• IPA^(key): /paʝˈpai/, [paʝˈpai̯]
• Hyphenation: pay‧pay

paypáy

1. fan

• IPA^(key): /pajˈpaj/ [pai̯ˈpai̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: pay‧pay

paypáy

1. a ritual right before a burial to have space from the spirits that reside on the burial site
2. a ritual to return a wandering soul from abroad into the body of a sick person
3. a practice that farmer parents do to speak to their infant's soul to not get left behind on the field
4. a practice that insulted girls do wherein a prayer/curse is put on a stone or chicken

• Caridad B. Fiar-od (17 April 2021) “Benguet: The Peg-as and Paypay rituals”, in Igorot Cordillera BIMAAK-Europe‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 May 2021
• Morice Vanoverbergh (1972) “Kankanay Religion (Northern Luzon, Philippines)”, in Anthropos‎^[2], volume 67, number 1/2 (in English and Kankanaey), Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, page 115

• pipay — obsolete

From Proto-Philippine *paypáy (“to wave the hand, as in beckoning someone or in fanning oneself”). Onomatopoeic in origin. Compare Kapampangan pepe.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /pajˈpaj/ [paɪ̯ˈpaɪ̯]
• Rhymes: -aj
• Syllabification: pay‧pay

paypáy (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜌ᜔ᜉᜌ᜔)

1. act of fanning

   Synonym: pagpaypay

2. a hand fan

   Synonyms: pamaypay, abaniko

3. a flap of air

   Synonym: ihip

4. shoulder blade

   Synonyms: payumpong, balagat, eskapula, bleyd

5. (colloquial) shoulder

   Synonym: balikat

• → Spanish: paipay
  • → Catalan: pai-pai

• “paypay”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*paypáy”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• yapyap