papa

Father.

Father: a word used chiefly by children.

In Mexico and Central and South America, the common potato, Solanum tuberosum.

A baboon; a papio or papion.

The specific name of the king-vulture of tropical America, sarcorhamphus or Gypagus papa. See cut under king-vulture.

A name, both generic and specific, of a coccothraustine bird of the Bonin Islands, Coccothraustes papa or ferrirostris, or Papa ferrirostris. Reichenbach;

A title formerly bestowed in the Christian church on bishops, and often on the inferior clergy, but now restricted to parish priests in the Greek Church.

A child’s word for father.

A parish priest in the Greek Church.

Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.