pope

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• UK: /pəʊp/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /pəʊp/
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• Australian: /pəʉp/
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• New-Zealand: /pɐʉp/
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• Scotland: /pop/
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• Wales: /poːp/ without the toe–tow merger
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From pope; also used in Ireland/Scotland as a surname meaning "papa, father."

From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp. and by 8th c. only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c. the bishop of Alexandria), from late Ancient Greek πάπας (pápas, title for priests and bishops, in the sense of spiritual father), from πάππας (páppas, “papa, daddy”).

By analogy with bishop (“mulled and spiced wine”).

From Russian поп (pop), from Old Church Slavonic попъ (popŭ), from Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs) as above.

Of Onomatopoeic origin.

167 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: pous — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Albanian: papë — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Arabic: بَابَا (bābā) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Arabic: حَبْر أَعْظَم (ḥabr ʔaʕẓam) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Arabic: حَبْر (ḥabr) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Aragonese: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Armenian: պապ (pap) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Armenian: Հռոմի պապ (Hṙomi pap) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Asturian: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Azerbaijani: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Azerbaijani: Roma papası — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Belarusian: па́па ры́мскі (pápa rýmski) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Belarusian: па́па (pápa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Bengali: ধর্মযাজক (dhormojajok) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Bulgarian: па́па (pápa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Bulgarian: па́па Ри́мски (pápa Rímski) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Burmese: ပုပ်ရဟန်းမင်းကြီး (pup-ra.han:mang:kri:) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Catalan: Papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chinese Cantonese: 教皇 (gaau3 wong4) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chinese Cantonese: 教宗 (gaau3 zung1) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Hakka Chinese: 教宗 (kau-chûng) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chinese: 教皇 (kàu-hông) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chinese: 教宗 (zh-min-nan) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chinese Mandarin: 教皇 (jiàohuáng) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chinese Mandarin: 教宗 (jiàozōng) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Chinese Mandarin: 羅馬教宗 /罗马教宗 (Luómǎ jiàozōng) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Czech: papež — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Danish: pave — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Dutch: paus — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Esperanto: papo — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Estonian: paavst — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Extremaduran: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Faroese: pávi — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Finnish: paavi — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• French: pape — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• French: papesse — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Middle French: pappe — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Galician: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Georgian: პაპი (ṗaṗi) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Georgian: რომის პაპი (romis ṗaṗi) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• German: Papst — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• German: Päpstin — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Bavarian German: Papst — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Greek: πάπας (pápas) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Gujarati: પાપા (pāpā) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Gujarati: પોપ (pop) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Gujarati: ધર્મગુરુ (dharmaguru) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Haitian Creole: pap — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Hebrew: אפיפיור \ אַפִּיפְיוֹר (apifyór) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Hindi: पोप (pop) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Hungarian: pápa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Icelandic: páfi — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Ido: papo — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Indonesian: paus — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Irish: pápa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Old Irish: pápa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Italian: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Italian: pontefice — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Japanese: 法王 (hōō) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Japanese: 教皇 (kyōkō) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Japanese: ローマ教皇 (Rōma kyōkō) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Kazakh: Рим папасы (Rim papasy) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Kazakh: папа (papa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Khmer: សម្ដេចប៉ាប (sɑmdac paap) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Konkani: पापसायब (pāpsāyab) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Korean: 교황 (gyohwang) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Korean: 법왕 (beobwang) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Korean: 로마 교황 — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Kyrgyz: папа (papa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Kyrgyz: Рим папасы (Rim papası) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Lao: ສັນຕະປາປາ (san ta pā pā) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Latin: pāpa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Latin: pater — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Latvian: pāvests — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Limburgish: paus — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Lingala: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Lithuanian: popiežius — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Luxembourgish: Poopst — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Macedonian: папа (papa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Malay: paus — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Manx: paab — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Māori: popi — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Mirandese: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Mongolian: пап (pap) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Mongolian: Ромын пап (Romyn pap) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Classical Nahuatl: huēyi teōpixcātlahtoāni — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Norman: pape — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Norwegian Bokmål: pave — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pave — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Occitan: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Old English: pāpa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Old Norse: páfi — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Pannonian Rusyn: папа (papa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Persian: پاپ (pâp) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Plautdietsch: Papst (nds) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Plautdietsch: Pop — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Polish: papież — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Polish: papieżyca — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Portuguese: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Portuguese: papisa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Romani: pëpa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Welsh-Romani: 'måro båro rašaj — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Romanian: papă — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Romanian: pëpa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Russian: па́па ри́мский (pápa rímskij) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Russian: па́па (pápa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Scottish Gaelic: pàp — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Serbo-Croatian: па̑па — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Serbo-Croatian: pȃpa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Shan: ၸဝ်ႈမုၼ်ပူပ်ႉ (tsāo mǔn pṵ̂up) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Shan: မုၼ်ၸဝ်ႈပူပ်ႉ (mǔn tsāo pṵ̂up) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Slovak: pápež — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Slovene: papež — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Upper Sorbian: bamž — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Sotho: mopapa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Spanish: Papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Spanish: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Spanish: vicediós — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Spanish: vicecristo — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Sranan Tongo: pawsu — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Swahili: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Swedish: påve — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Tagalog: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Tagalog: Santo Papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Tajik: папаи Рим (papa-yi Rim) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Tajik: папа (papa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Tajik: поп (pop) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Tatar: Рим папасы (Rim papası) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Thai: สันตะปาปา (sǎn-dtà-bpaa-bpaa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Thai: โป๊ป (bpóop) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Turkish: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Turkmen: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Turkmen: Rim papasy — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Ukrainian: па́па ри́мський (pápa rýmsʹkyj) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Ukrainian: па́па (pápa) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Urdu: پوپ (pop) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Uzbek: Rim papasi — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Uzbek: papa — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Uzbek: pop — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Vietnamese: giáo hoàng — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Vietnamese: giáo hoàng ở La Mã — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Volapük: papal — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Volapük: hipapal — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Volapük: jipapal — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Volapük: pap — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Welsh: pab — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Yiddish: פּויפּס (poyps) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Yiddish: פּויפּסט (poypst) — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Yup'ik: allgiliyaq — head of the Roman Catholic Church
• Arabic: الْبَابَا (al-bābā) — Russian Orthodox priest
• Arabic: الْأَب (al-ʔab) — Russian Orthodox priest
• Belarusian: поп (pop) — Russian Orthodox priest
• Bulgarian: поп (pop) — Russian Orthodox priest
• Czech: pop — Russian Orthodox priest
• French: pope — Russian Orthodox priest
• Greek: παπάς (papás) — Russian Orthodox priest
• Ido: popo — Russian Orthodox priest
• Indonesian: paus — Russian Orthodox priest
• Macedonian: поп (pop) — Russian Orthodox priest
• Polish: pop — Russian Orthodox priest
• Portuguese: pope — Russian Orthodox priest
• Russian: поп (pop) — Russian Orthodox priest
• Serbo-Croatian: по̏п — Russian Orthodox priest
• Serbo-Croatian: pȍp — Russian Orthodox priest
• Slovak: pop — Russian Orthodox priest
• Slovene: pop — Russian Orthodox priest
• Ukrainian: поп (pop) — Russian Orthodox priest