aapa
/ɑːpɑː/noun
aapa is a noun meaning “A sister that is older than oneself; also used as a term of familiarity or respect toward a woman that is older” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-A-P-A, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of aapa is aapas.
What does aapa mean?
noun
- 1
IndiarareA sister that is older than oneself; also used as a term of familiarity or respect toward a woman that is older.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce aapa?
- /ɑːpɑː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-aapa.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of aapa
- aapas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is aapa?
Aapa appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does aapa come from?
From Urdu آپا (āpā) / Bengali আপা (apa).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).