hapah
Ainu
Etymology
Borrowed from Nivkh ӿаваф (havaf).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hàꜛpáx/
Noun
hapah (Kana spelling ハパㇵ, possessed form hapapuhu)
- (dialectal, Sakhalin, anatomy) lungs
- Synonym: yukram
References
- Vovin, Alexander V. (2016), “On the Linguistic Prehistory of Hokkaidō”, in Gruzdeva Ekaterina; Janhunen Juha, editors, Crosslinguistics and Linguistic Crossings in Northeast Asia. Papers on the Languages of Sakhalin and Adjacent Regions (Studia Orientalia; 117), Helsinki, pages 29–38.