Letter

p (upper case P)Category:Translingual lemmas#PCategory:Translingual letters#PCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#PCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#PCategory:Latin script characters#P

1. The sixteenth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation

• Pronunciation of IPA [pɑː, ɑppɑː] with the sound [p]:

  (file)

  Category:Translingual terms with audio pronunciation#P

Symbol

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Voiceless bilabial plosive

Wikipedia

pCategory:Translingual lemmas#PCategory:Translingual symbols#PCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

2. (IPACategory:IPA symbols#P) a voiceless bilabial plosive.
3. (superscript ⟨ᵖ⟩, IPACategory:IPA symbols#P) [p]-onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), [p]-release (e.g. ⟨kᵖ⟩ for [k͡p]), [p]-coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic [p].
5. (physicsCategory:mul:Physics#P) pressure
7. (musicCategory:mul:Music#P) piano (play softly)
9. (chemistryCategory:mul:Chemistry#P, in combination) power of; the negative logarithm of a concentration, as in pH or pOH
11. (physicsCategory:mul:Physics#P) proton

    Coordinate terms: n, e

12. (statisticsCategory:mul:Statistics#P) probability; p-value

Gallery

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

See also

• (IPA): b (“voiced bilabial plosive”)
• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Sſs  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter P):  Ṕṕ  Ṗṗ  Ᵽᵽ  Ƥƥ  P̃p̃  ᵱ  ᶈ  ᴘ  Ｐｐ  ȹ
• With hook: ƥ
• ƿ (wynn)

Other representations of P:

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Abbreviations

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): [pʰ]Category:Azerbaijani terms with IPA pronunciation#P
• (letter name) IPA^(key): [pʰeː], [pʰɯː]Category:Azerbaijani terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Azerbaijani lemmas#PCategory:Azerbaijani letters#PCategory:Azerbaijani nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Azerbaijani entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe/, [pe̞]Category:Basque 1-syllable words#PCategory:Basque terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Basque lemmas#PCategory:Basque letters#PCategory:Basque nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Basque entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpe]Category:Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Catalan lemmas#PCategory:Catalan letters#PCategory:Catalan nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. The sixteenth letter of the Catalan alphabet, called pe and written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/Category:Central Mazahua terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Central Mazahua lemmas#PCategory:Central Mazahua letters#PCategory:Central Mazahua nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Central Mazahua entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. A letter of the Central Mazahua alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Czech lemmas#PCategory:Czech letters#PCategory:Czech nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) písmeno; A a, Á á, B b, C c, Č č, D d, Ď ď, E e, É é, Ě ě, F f, G g, H h, Ch ch, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, Ň ň, O o, Ó ó, P p, Q q, R r, Ř ř, S s, Š š, T t, Ť ť, U u, Ú ú, Ů ů, V v, W w, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Z z, Ž ž

Noun

⁠⁠⁠ fCategory:Demotic Egyptian lemmas#Category:Demotic Egyptian nouns#Category:Demotic Egyptian entries with incorrect language header#Category:Demotic Egyptian feminine nouns#Category:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. alternative form of p.t (“sky”)

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#P
• Rhymes: -eːCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/eː#PCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/eː/1 syllable#P
• (letter name): IPA^(key): /peː/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Dutch lemmas#PCategory:Dutch letters#PCategory:Dutch nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

See also

• Previous letter: o
• Next letter: q

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛ/Category:Egyptian terms with IPA pronunciation#
  • Conventional anglicization: pe

Noun

 m

1. mat

Noun

 m

1. plinth

Proper noun

 (originally) m or (later often) f (toponym)

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

Determiner

 m sg proximal demonstrative determiner

1. (Old EgyptianCategory:Old Egyptian#) alternative form of pj (“this”)

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN

Pronunciation

(phoneme)

• IPA^(key): /p/, (before a voiced obstruent) /b/Category:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#P

(letter)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpo/Category:Esperanto 1-syllable words#PCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#P

• Audio 1:

  (file)

  Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#P

• Audio 2:

  (file)

  Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Esperanto lemmas#PCategory:Esperanto letters#PCategory:Esperanto nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Further reading

• “p”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “po”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Pronunciation

• Letter name: IPA^(key): /ˈpeː/Category:Estonian terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Estonian lemmas#PCategory:Estonian letters#PCategory:Estonian nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Estonian entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/Category:Faroese terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Faroese lemmas#PCategory:Faroese letters#PCategory:Faroese nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Faroese entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Etymology

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German, and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and p for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

• (sound): IPA^(key): /p/Category:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#P

• Audio; “pee, pappi, ripaus, pee”:

  (file)

  Category:Finnish terms with audio pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Finnish lemmas#PCategory:Finnish letters#PCategory:Finnish nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Noun

pCategory:Finnish lemmas#PCategory:Finnish nouns#PCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. abbreviation of penni (“penny”) (no longer used)Category:Finnish abbreviations#P

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pe/Category:French 1-syllable words#PCategory:French terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:French lemmas#PCategory:French letters#PCategory:French nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:French entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/Category:Fula terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Fula lemmas#PCategory:Fula letters#PCategory:Fula nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Fula entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Romanization

pCategory:Gothic non-lemma forms#PCategory:Gothic romanizations#PCategory:Gothic entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. romanization of 𐍀

Alternative forms

• (letter name) pī

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /ˈpiː/Category:Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation#P
• (phoneme) /p/

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Hawaiian lemmas#PCategory:Hawaiian letters#PCategory:Hawaiian nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. The eleventh letter of the Hawaiian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/Category:Heiltsuk terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Heiltsuk lemmas#PCategory:Heiltsuk letters#PCategory:Heiltsuk nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Heiltsuk entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Further reading

• p in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pʰjɛː/Category:Icelandic 1-syllable words#PCategory:Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Icelandic lemmas#PCategory:Icelandic letters#PCategory:Icelandic nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Icelandic entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) bókstafur; A a, Á á, B b, D d, Рð, E e, É é, F f, G g, H h, I i, Í í, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ó ó, P p, R r, S s, T t, U u, Ú ú, V v, X x, Y y, Ý ý, Þ þ, Æ æ, Ö ö

Pronunciation

• (context pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p/Category:Ido terms with IPA pronunciation#P
• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pe/Category:Ido terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Ido lemmas#PCategory:Ido letters#PCategory:Ido nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Ido entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Irish lemmas#PCategory:Irish letters#PCategory:Irish nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Irish entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. The fourteenth letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Isoko lemmas#PCategory:Isoko letters#PCategory:Isoko nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Isoko entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Isoko alphabet, written in the Latin script.

References

• E. O. Agbada et al, Vbuhrẹ Ụmụ́bọrá Isoko (Teach Yourself Isoko), first published 2008, revised edition 2017, page 8, 10
• Onyerioma Isaac Itegolor, Isoko Wha Dooo...! Book 2 (Operation Speak Your Language), Revised Standard Edition (2015), page 1
• Joe Okedi, Abidi Isoko Na Kpobi, 2020

Letter

p f or m (lower case, upper case P, invariable)Category:Italian lemmas#PCategory:Italian letters#PCategory:Italian nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Italian entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Etymology

Borrowed from TagalogCategory:Kankanaey terms borrowed from Tagalog#PCategory:Kankanaey terms derived from Tagalog#P p. Letter pronunciation is influenced by EnglishCategory:Kankanaey terms derived from English#P p.

Pronunciation

• (letter name) IPA^(key): /pi/ [pi̞]Category:Kankanaey 1-syllable words#PCategory:Kankanaey terms with IPA pronunciation#P
  • Rhymes: -iCategory:Rhymes:Kankanaey/i#PCategory:Rhymes:Kankanaey/i/1 syllable#P
• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/ [p̚]Category:Kankanaey terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Kankanaey lemmas#PCategory:Kankanaey letters#PCategory:Kankanaey entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. The eighteenth letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called pi and written in the Latin script.

References

• Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino (2016), Ortograpiya di Kankanaëy [Kankanaey Orthography]‎ (in Kankanaey and Tagalog), →ISBN, pages 10-11

Etymology

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and p for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Kashubian lemmas#PCategory:Kashubian letters#PCategory:Kashubian nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Kashubian entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʰ/Category:Kiowa terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Kiowa lemmas#PCategory:Kiowa letters#PCategory:Kiowa nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Kiowa entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

1. A letter of the Kiowa alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

• (Latin-script letters) A a, Ai ai, Au au, Aui aui, B̶ b̶, B b, D̶ d̶, D d, E e, G̶ g̶, G g, H h, I i, K k, Kʼ kʼ, L l, M m, N n, n̶, O o, Oi oi, P p, Pʼ pʼ, S s, T t, Tʼ tʼ, Ts ts, Tsʼ tsʼ, U u, Ui ui, W w, Y y, Z z, ꞉

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Latin lemmas#PCategory:Latin letters#PCategory:Latin nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

References

• "p", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “p”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [p]Category:Latvian terms with IPA pronunciation#P

This entry needs an audio pronunciation. If you are a native speaker with a microphone, please record this word. The recorded pronunciation will appear here when it's ready.

Category:Requests for audio pronunciation in Latvian entries#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Latvian lemmas#PCategory:Latvian letters#PCategory:Latvian nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Latvian entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Pronunciation

• (phoneme) IPA^(key): /p/Category:Livonian terms with IPA pronunciation#P

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Livonian lemmas#PCategory:Livonian letters#PCategory:Livonian nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Livonian entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) kēratē’ḑ; A a, Ā ā, Ä ä, Ǟ ǟ, B b, D d, Ḑ ḑ, E e, Ē ē, F f, G g, H h, I i, Ī ī, J j, K k, L l, Ļ ļ, M m, N n, Ņ ņ, O o, Ō ō, Ȯ ȯ, Ȱ ȱ, Õ õ, Ȭ ȭ, P p, R r, Ŗ ŗ, S s, Š š, T t, Ț ț, U u, Ū ū, V v, Z z, Ž ž

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Malay lemmas#PCategory:Malay letters#PCategory:Malay nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Malay entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p/Category:Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation#P
• IPA^(key): /b/Category:Maltese terms with IPA pronunciation#P (by assimilation to a following voiced obstruent)
• With very few exceptions, this letter occurs only in borrowings.

Letter

p (lower case, upper case P)Category:Maltese lemmas#PCategory:Maltese letters#PCategory:Maltese nouns#PCategory:Latin script characters#PCategory:Maltese entries with incorrect language header#PCategory:Pages with entries#PCategory:Pages with 57 entries#PCategory:Pages with raw sortkeys#P

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

See also

• (Latin-script letters) ittra; A a, B b, Ċ ċ, D d, E e, F f, Ġ ġ, G g, Għ għ, H h, Ħ ħ, I i, Ie ie, J j, K k, L l, M m, N n, O o, P p, Q q, R r, S s, T t, U u, V v, W w, X x, Ż ż, Z z