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Papa vs Pada - What's the difference?

papa | pada |

As nouns the difference between papa and pada

is that papa is dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father while pada is {{cx|Sanskrit|_|prosody|lang=en}} The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.

As an acronym PAPA

is Professional and Amateur Pinball Association, and the tournaments held under its auspices.

papa

English

(wikipedia papa)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (often, childish) Dad, daddy, father; a familiar or old-fashioned term of address to one’s father.
  • (informal)
  • A parish priest in the Greek Orthodox Church.
  • (Shipley)
  • The letter P in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
  • See also

    * da * dad * daddy

    Anagrams

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    pada

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The basic metric unit of Vedic poetry, consisting of one line of verse in Sanskrit, typically as part of a four-line stanza.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 79:
  • *:There were quatrains and broken verses and entire poems. There were padas that she had started and scratched out.
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