p

See also: P and Variations of "p"

p - Translingual

Letter

p (upper case P)

The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Symbol

(IPA) voiceless bilabial plosive
(physics) pressure
(music) piano (play softly)
(chemistry) power of; the negative logarithm of a concentration, as in pH or pOH
(physics) proton

Gallery

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

p - English

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P, plural ps or p's)

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

Number

p (lower case, upper case P)

The ordinal number sixteenth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called pee and written in the Latin script.

Alternative forms

(page, per): p.

Pronunciation

IPA: /piː/

Preposition

Abbreviation of post, meaning after
Abbreviation of per.
(stenoscript) Abbreviation of up.

Translations

Swedish: / (sv)

Noun

Alternative form of p.; Abbreviation of page (plural pp)
(UK) Abbreviation of penny; pence.
(physics) proton
(video compression) Abbreviation of progressive scan.
Abbreviation of pee.
- I'll slurp all that p.

Translations

Verb

(knitting) Abbreviation of purl.

Adverb

p (not comparable)

(Internet) Abbreviation of pretty (as an intensifier)
- I'm doing p good, how are you?
(chiefly US, stenoscript) Alternative spelling of p.m. (“post meridiem”) or pm

Derived terms

p - Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /p/

Letter

p lower case (upper case P)

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

p - Basque

Pronunciation

IPA: /pe/, [pe̞]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Demotic

Noun

⁠⁠⁠ f

Alternative form of p.t (“sky”)

p - Dutch

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /peː/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Egyptian

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA: /pɛ/
- Conventional anglicization: pe

Noun

Inflection

singular	p
dual	pwj
plural	pw

Noun

plinth

Inflection

singular	p
dual	pwj
plural	pw

Proper noun

m./f. topo.

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

p - Esperanto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /po/
(phoneme): IPA: /p/
Homophone (letter name): po

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Estonian

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈpeː/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Faroese

Pronunciation

IPA: /pʰ/

Letter

p (upper case P)

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

p - Finnish

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

Noun

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

p - French

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA: /pe/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Fula

Pronunciation

IPA: /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

Usage notes

Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

p - Gothic

Romanization

Romanization of 𐍀

p - Hungarian

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: [ˈp]
(letter name): IPA: [ˈpeː]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twenty-eighth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called pé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	p	p-k
accusative	p-t	p-ket
dative	p-nek	p-knek
instrumental	p-vel	p-kkel
causal-final	p-ért	p-kért
translative	p-vé	p-kké
terminative	p-ig	p-kig
essive-formal	p-ként	p-kként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	p-ben	p-kben
superessive	p-n	p-ken
adessive	p-nél	p-knél
illative	p-be	p-kbe
sublative	p-re	p-kre
allative	p-hez	p-khez
elative	p-ből	p-kből
delative	p-ről	p-kről
ablative	p-től	p-ktől
non-attributive possessive - singular	p-é	p-ké
non-attributive possessive - plural	p-éi	p-kéi

Possessive forms of p
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	p-m	p-im
2nd person sing.	p-d	p-id
3rd person sing.	p-je	p-i
1st person plural	p-nk	p-ink
2nd person plural	p-tek	p-itek
3rd person plural	p-jük	p-ik

Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈpɛrt͡s]

Noun

p (plural p-ek)

Abbreviation of perc (“minute[s]”).
- Coordinate terms: ó, mp

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	p	p-ek
accusative	p-et	p-eket
dative	p-nek	p-eknek
instrumental	p-cel	p-ekkel
causal-final	p-ért	p-ekért
translative	p-cé	p-ekké
terminative	p-ig	p-ekig
essive-formal	p-ként	p-ekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	p-ben	p-ekben
superessive	p-en	p-eken
adessive	p-nél	p-eknél
illative	p-be	p-ekbe
sublative	p-re	p-ekre
allative	p-hez	p-ekhez
elative	p-ből	p-ekből
delative	p-ről	p-ekről
ablative	p-től	p-ektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	p-é	p-eké
non-attributive possessive - plural	p-éi	p-ekéi

Possessive forms of p
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	p-em	p-eim
2nd person sing.	p-ed	p-eid
3rd person sing.	p-e	p-ei
1st person plural	p-ünk	p-eink
2nd person plural	p-etek	p-eitek
3rd person plural	p-ük	p-eik

p - Icelandic

Pronunciation

(letter name) IPA: /pʰjɛː/

Letter

p (upper case P)

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

p - Ido

Pronunciation

(context pronunciation) IPA: /p/
(letter name) IPA: /pe/

Letter

p (upper case P)

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

p - Italian

Letter

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

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

p - Latin

Letter

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

p - Latvian

Pronunciation

IPA: [p]

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Livonian

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

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

p - Malay

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Maltese

Pronunciation

IPA: /p/
IPA: /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)

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

p - Norwegian

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /peː/
(phoneme): IPA: /p/

Letter

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

p - Nupe

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Polish

Pronunciation

IPA: /pɛ/

Letter

p (upper case P, lower case)

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

p - Portuguese

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Romani

Pronunciation

IPA: /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA: /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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

p - Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(uppercase) P

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /p/

Letter

p (Cyrillic spelling п)

The 22nd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by o and followed by r.

p - Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The twenty-sixth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

p - Spanish

Pronunciation

IPA: (phoneme) /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The seventeenth letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

p - Turkish

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The twentieth letter of the Turkish alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

p - Turkmen

Pronunciation

(phoneme) IPA: /p/

Letter

p (upper case P)

The twentieth letter of the Turkmen alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

p - Yoruba

Pronunciation

(phoneme): IPA: /k͡p/
(letter name): IPA: /k͡pí/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

The eighteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, called pí and written in the Latin script.

p - Zulu

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)

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