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ipa 'ipa
See Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet for Wiktionary's Appendix for IPA symbols
English
Pronunciation
en /ˌaɪ.piːˈeɪ/ [ˌaɪ.pʰiːˈeɪ]
en en-us-IPA.ogg US
en eɪ 3
Proper noun
en International Phonetic Alphabet.
en extIPA para-IPA
en 2012 James Lambert Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English World Englishes 297 https://benjamins.com/catalog/eww.33.3.03lam 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).
en 2024-06-06 L2/24-171: Miscellaneous historical and para-IPA modifier letters Kirk Miller 1 UTC Document Registry https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24171-para-ipa-mod-letters.pdf 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20261010002016/https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2024/24171-para-ipa-mod-letters.pdf 10 October 2026
en w:International Phonetic Association.
en JIPA
en w:International Police Association.
Translations
International Phonetic Alphabet
Afrikaans: af IFA
Arabic: ar أصد
Armenian: hy ՄՀԱ
Asturian: ast AFI
Bashkir: ba ХАФӘ
Basque: eu IPA
Belarusian: narkomawka be МФА, tarashkevica be МФА
Breton: br LFE
Bulgarian: bg МФА
Catalan: ca AFI
Chuvash: cv ТФА
Czech: cs MFA
Dutch: nl IFA
Esperanto: eo IFA
Finnish: fi IPA
French: fr API
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy YFA
Galician: gl AFI
German: de IPA
Greek: el ΔΦΑ
Hindi: hi अधव, hi अ॰ध॰व॰
Irish: ga AIF
Italian: it AFI, it IPA
Latin: la API
Latvian: lv SFA
Lithuanian: lt TFA
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: nds-nl IKS, nds-nl IFA
Macedonian: mk МФА
Malay: ms AFA
Manx: gv ASE
Norman: nrf API
Occitan: oc AFI
Pashto: ps ايي پي اې ayi-pî-aê
Persian: fa آیپیآ ây-pi-â
Polish: pl IPA f, pl MAF m-in
Portuguese: pt AFI
Romanian: ro AFI
Russian: ru МФА
Scots: sco IPA
Scottish Gaelic: gd AEF
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh МФА
Latin: sh MFA
Sicilian: scn AFN
Silesian: szl MAF
Slovak: sk MFA
Slovene: sl MFA
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: hsb Mfa m
Spanish: es AFI
Tajik: tg АФБ
Turkish: tr UFA
Ukrainian: uk МФА
Volapük: vo LFB
Walloon: wa AFE
Welsh: cy GSR
Noun
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en organic compound uncountable en isopropyl alcohol.
en organic compound uncountable en isophthalic acid.
en organic compound uncountable en isopropyl acetate.
en beer countable en India pale ale.
en Beer for Pete's Sake: The Wicked Adventures of a Brewing Maverick 128 Pete Slosberg 1998 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?
en linguistics countable A transcription written in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
en computing countable A kind of archive containing a software package for certain Apple devices. Originally an initialism of iPhone Archive, later redefined as iOS App Store Package.
Anagrams
en aip api- pia API IAP AIP PIA Api
en Organizations
German
Pronunciation
de De-IPA.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Proper noun
n,(s)
de Internationales Phonetisches Alphabet
Declension
n,(s).sg
Indonesian
Pronunciation
id /ˈi.pa/ acronym
id /iˈpe.a/ initialism, rare
Noun
id noun
id ilmu pengetahuan alam
See also
id FMIPA
id MIPA
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
it :bor en:IPA
it en IPA.
Proper noun
the en IPA International Phonetic Alphabet
it AFI
Anagrams
it aip Api api pia
Polish
Etymology
pl :bor en:IPA + 1
Pronunciation
aj pi 'ej,i pe 'a I.P.A
Proper noun
f 1
the IPA International Phonetic Alphabet
pl MAF
Further reading