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{{also|Pip|PIP|PiP|píp|піп}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|pĭp}}, {{IPA|en|/pɪp/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-pip.ogg|a=US}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɪp|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|pippe}}, from {{der|en|dum|pip}}, from post-classical {{der|en|la|pipita}}, from {{der|en|la|pītuīta||mucus, phlegm, head cold}}. {{doublet|en|pituita}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# Any of various [[respiratory]] diseases in [[birds]], especially infectious [[coryza]]. {{defdate|from the 15th c.}}
# {{lb|en|humorous|dated}} Of humans, a [[disease]], [[malaise]] or [[depression]].
#* '''1912''', {{w|D. H. Lawrence}}, letter to Edward Garnett
#*: I've got the '''pip''' horribly at present.
#* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1915|year_published=1916|author=w:C.J. Dennis|title=The Songs of the Sentimental Bloke|page=13|text=Fer, as the poit sez, me 'eart 'as got / The '''pip''' wiv yearnin' fer - I dunno wot.}}
#* {{quote-book
|en
|year=1960
|author=w:P. G. Wodehouse
|title=w:Jeeves in the Offing
|section=chapter IV
|passage=With this deal Uncle Tom's got on with Homer Cream, it would be fatal to risk giving [Mrs Cream] the '''pip''' in any way.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=16 Aug 80|volume=8|number=5|journal=Gay Community News|page=22|title=Mousie Mousie Wildflower (personal advertisement)|text=So sorry that you caught the '''pip'''<br>On our most recent northward trip<br>But you'll be better soon I'm hopin'<br>Cause with the mornings I'm not copin'<br>Some nerve. Tell those nasty viruses to Bug off!}}
#* {{quote-av|en|author=Paul Simms|authorlink=Paul Simms|actor={{w|Matt Berry}}|role=Laszlo Cravensworth|episode={{w|The Prisoner (What We Do in the Shadows)|The Prisoner}}|title={{w|What We Do in the Shadows}}|url=https://www.hulu.com/watch/f6a008bf-128e-41f8-9533-757aa7e7bfe5|season=3|number=1|date=September 2, 2021|time=1:11|text=“I frankly couldn't give a cat's knuckle about Gizmo. I mean, he's just kind of this fluttering lickspittle that is always bouncing about, always behind Nandor. But Nandor likes him.” “Oh, shut up, Colin Robinson. You're giving me the '''pip'''.”}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|like a chicken with the pip}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|respiratory disease in birds}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|пипка|f}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|tipec|m}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|pip|m}}
*: Middle Dutch: {{t|dum|pip}}
* French: {{t+|fr|pépie}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|pebida|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Pips|m}}
*: Alemannic German: {{t|gsw|Pfiffi|n}}
*: Middle High German: {{t|gmh|pfiffiz}}
* Italian: {{t|it|pipita|f}}
* Latin: {{t|la|pipita}}
* Middle English: {{t|enm|pippe}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|دلجك|tr=dilcik}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|pevide|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
Apparently representing a shortened form of {{m|en|pippin}}, from {{inh|en|enm|pipin}}, from {{der|en|fro|pepin||a seed}} ({{cog|fr|pépin}}).

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|obsolete}} A [[pippin]], [[seed]] of any kind.
## {{lb|en|UK}} A seed inside certain [[fleshy]] fruits (compare [[stone]]/[[pit]]), such as a [[peach]], [[orange]], or [[apple]].
##* {{quote-book|en|author=John Pairman Brown|title=Israel and Hellas|volume=1|series=Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft|seriesvolume=231|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|location=Berlin|year=1995|isbn=978-3-11-014233-4|page=134|passage=On most of the shores of the ancient Mediterranean, before any historical record, the cultivated grape vine, ''Vitis vinifera'' Linn., was grown. Its relationship to the wild vine of Eurasia, ''Vitis silvestris'' Gmel., is uncertain. Its '''pips''' can mostly be distinguished from those of the wild vine, and have been found in Egypt and Syrian Hama from the fourth millennium BC, at Lachish and Jericho in the early Bronze, at Troy II during the Bronze, in the Peloponnesus from Early Helladic, in Crete from the Early Minoan.}}
##: {{ux|en|Apple '''pips''' are edible, but don't have a pleasant taste.}}
# {{lb|en|US|colloquial}} Something or someone [[excellent]], of high quality.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2006|author=Thomas Pynchon|title=Against the Day|page=612|publisher=Vintage|year_published=2007
|passage=She sure is a '''pip''', that one. You need company?}}
# {{lb|en|British|dated|WW I|signalese}} [[P]] in {{w|RAF phonetic alphabet}}.

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|pip emma}}
* {{l|en|until the pips squeak}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|seed}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|bërthamë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|عَجَمَة|f}}, {{t+|ar|عَجَم|m}} {{qualifier|collectively}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|կորիզ}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|çəyirdək}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|ко́стачка|f}}, {{t|be|зярня́тка|n}}, {{t|be|се́мечка|n}}, {{t|be|се́мачка|n}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|বীজ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|се́мка|f}}, {{t+|bg|зръ́нце|n}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|果仁}}, {{t+|cmn|仁|tr=rén}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|jadérko|n}}, {{t+|cs|pecka|f}}
* Danish: {{t|da|kerne|c}} {{qualifier|apples, orange, pomegranate}}, {{t+|da|sten|c}} {{qualifier|peach, avocado}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|pit|m}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|tuum}}, {{t+|et|seeme}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|siemen}} {{q|orange, apple}}, {{t+|fi|kivi}} {{q|peach}}
* French: {{t+|fr|pépin|m}}
* Galician: {{t+|gl|pebida|f}}
* Georgian: {{t|ka|კურკა}}
* German: {{t+|de|Kern|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|κουκούτσι|n}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|חַרצָן|m|tr=khartsán}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|बीज|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|mag}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|kjarni|m}}, {{t+|is|steinn|m}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|biji}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|seme|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|種|tr=たね, tane}}
* Kazakh: {{t|kk|дәнек}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|씨}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t+|ky|данек}}
* Latvian: {{t+|lv|sēkla|f}}, {{t|lv|kauliņš|m}}
* Lithuanian: {{t|lt|branduolys|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|се́ме|n}}, {{t|mk|го́лушка|f}}
* Malay: {{t+|ms|biji}}
* Manx: {{t|gv|sheel|m}}
* Maori: {{t+|mi|kākano}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|kjerne|m}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|دانه|tr=dâne}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|pestka|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|caroço|m}}, {{t+|pt|semente|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|sâmbure|m}}, {{t+|ro|sămânță|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|ко́сточка|f}}, {{t+|ru|зёрнышко|n}}, {{t+|ru|се́мечко|n}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|ко̀штица|f}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|kòštica|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|jadierko|n}}, {{t|sk|kôstka|f}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|peška|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|pipa|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|kärna|c}}
* Tagalog: {{t+|tl|buto}}
* Tajik: {{t|tg|дона}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|เมล็ด}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|çekirdek}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|кі́стка|f}}, {{t|uk|кі́сточка|f}}, {{t|uk|зе́рнятко|n}}, {{t+|uk|насі́ння|n}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|بیج|m|tr=bīj}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|مېغىز}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|danak}}
* Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|hạt}}
* Zulu: {{t+|zu|inhlamvu|c9|c10}}, {{t|zu|uhlamvu|c11|c10}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb|++}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To remove the pips from.
#: {{ux|en|Peel and '''pip''' the grapes.}}

===Etymology 3===
[[File:British Army OF-2.svg|thumb|100px|The insignia for captain in the British Army, which is decorated by 3 pips (sense 2)]]
Origin {{unc|en|nocap=1}}; perhaps related to Etymology 2, above.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# One of the spots or symbols on a [[playing card]], [[domino]], [[die]], etc.
# {{lb|en|military|public service}} One of the stylised version of the {{w|Bath star}} worn on the shoulder of a uniform to denote rank, e.g. of a [[soldier]] or a [[fireman]].
# A spot; a speck.
# A spot of light or an inverted V indicative of a return of [[radar]] [[wave]]s reflected from an object; a [[blip]].
# A piece of [[rhizome]] with a [[dormant]] [[shoot]] of the [[lily of the valley]] plant, used for [[propagation]]

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|symbol on playing card etc}} {{l|en|spot}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|dot, symbol on domino, die, etc.}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|точка|f}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|အပွင့်|sc=Mymr}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|tečka|f}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|stip|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|piste}}
* French: {{t+|fr|point|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Auge|n}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|colore|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|punto|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|öga|n}}
{{trans-bottom}}
{{trans-top|stylized Bath star to denote rank}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{t+|yue|花}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[get the better of]]; to [[defeat]] by a narrow margin.
#: {{syn|en|pip to the post}}
#: {{ux|en|He led throughout the race but was '''pipped''' at the post.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|date=October 1 2022|author=Phil McNulty|title=Arsenal 3-1 Tottenham: Gunners show identity & direction in outstanding derby win|work=BBC Sport|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63104127|text={{w|Mikel Arteta|Arteta}} faced much scrutiny after Spurs '''pipped''' the Gunners to Champions League football on the final day of last season, with opposite number {{w|Antonio Conte|Conte}} deservedly hailed for the transformation he had overseen in just a few months at the helm.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|date=2023 August 24|author=Rob Crilly|site=Daily Mail|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12439783/Vivek-Ramaswamy-beats-Ron-DeSantis-best-performance-tops-Donald-Trump-real-winner-poll-Republican-debate.html|passage=Some 28 percent said he was the best performer, '''pipping''' DeSantis by one point|title=Vivek Ramaswamy beats Ron DeSantis for best performance AND tops Donald Trump as the 'real winner' in poll of the Republican debate}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[hit]] with a [[gunshot]].
#: {{ux|en|The hunter managed to '''pip''' three ducks from his blind.}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|en|pip to the post}}
* {{l|en|pip at the post}}

===Etymology 4===
{{onomatopoeic|en|title=Imitative}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To [[peep]], to [[chirp]].
# {{lb|en|ornithology}} To [[make]] the [[initial]] [[hole]] during the [[process]] of [[hatch]]ing from an [[egg]].

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|pipsqueak}}

===Etymology 5===
{{onomatopoeic|en|title=Imitative}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}
{{listen|Gts (bbc) pips.ogg|The sound of the BBC '''pips'''}}

# One of a series of very short, electronically produced [[tone]]s, used, for example, to count down the final few seconds before a given [[time]] or to indicate that a [[caller]] using a [[payphone]] needs to make further payment to continue the call.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1982|author=John Banville|title=The Newton Letter
|passage=I could clearly hear the frequent cataclysms of the upstairs lavatory, and my day began with the '''pips''' for the morning news in Charlotte Lawless's kitchen.}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|electronic sound|counting down seconds}} {{l|en|stroke}}

=====Derived terms=====
*[[pip pip pip]]

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|short electronically produced tone}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|пиукане|n}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|piep|m}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|piippaus}}, {{t|fi|piippi}}
* French: {{t+|fr|top|m}}, {{t+|fr|bip|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|pip|n}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 6===
{{abbreviation of|en|[[percentage]] in [[point]]}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|finance|currency trading}} The smallest [[price#Noun|price]] [[increment]] between two [[currency|currencies]] in [[foreign exchange]] ([[forex]]) [[trading#Noun|trading]].
#* {{quote-book|en|author=Abe Cofnas|chapter=Trading Styles and Strategies|title=The Forex Trading Course: A Self-study Guide to Becoming a Successful Currency Trader|edition=2nd|location=Hoboken, N.J.|publisher=w:John Wiley & Sons|year=2015|section=part II (Timing the Trade with Technical Analysis)|page=157|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=FR_YCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA157|isbn=978-1-118-99865-6|passage=The set-and-forget trader is playing fundamental direction and is seeking very large moves of 150 to 300 '''pips'''. This trader doesn't want to sit and watch the screen but play the longer moves and forces behind forex.}}

===See also===
{{col2|en|title=terms containing "pip", probably of unrelated or unknown etymology|pip pip|pip-pip|pip-squeak|toodle pip}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=ipp|IPP|PPI}}

{{C|en|Card games|Diseases|Horticulture|Sounds|Veterinary medicine}}

==Albanian==

===Etymology 1===
A descriptive term, similar to {{cog|de|piepen}} and {{cog|la|pipīre||}}.

====Verb====
{{sq-verb|pipa|pipur}}

# to [[peep]], to [[chirp]]

===Etymology 2===
From Romance *pīpa, also present in {{cog|fro|pipe}}, {{cog|it|pipa}} etc.

====Noun====
{{sq-noun|f|pipa|pipa|pipat}}

# [[sprout]], [[shoot]]
# [[pipe]], [[tube]]

==Danish==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|da|non|*pípa}}, from {{inh|da|gem-pro|*pīpaną}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|da|/pip/|[pʰib̥]}}

===Noun===
{{da-noun|stem=pipp|et}}

# [[chirp]], [[peep]], [[tweet]]
# [[bleep]]

====Inflection====
{{da-noun-infl|stem=pipp|et}}

===Noun===
{{head|da|noun|g=n}}

# {{lb|da|dated}} [[nonsense]], [[gibberish]], [[madness]]
#* {{quote-book|da|year=2015|author=w:William Heinesen|title=Tårnet ved verdens ende: En poetisk mosaik-roman om den yngste ungdom|publisher=Gyldendal A/S|isbn=9788702187496
|passage=Sådan noget '''pip'''!}}
#* {{quote-text|da|year=1975|author=Manfred Spliedt|title=Sådan en dum knægt
|passage=Sikke noget '''pip'''.}}
#* {{quote-text|da|year=1975|author=w:Aksel Sandemose|title=Minner fra andre dager
|passage=Jeg var forarget over saadan noget '''Pip''' ...}}

==Dutch==

===Etymology===
From {{inh|nl|dum|pippe}}, {{m|dum|pip}}, {{m|dum|pips|t=pip”, also “cold, flu}}, ultimately from post-classical {{der|nl|la|pipita|pip(p)ita}}, from {{der|nl|la|pītuīta||slime, head cold}}.

The word was borrowed into West Germanic before the High German consonant shift as {{m|gmw-pro||*pippit}}, whence {{cog|goh|pfipfiz}} and ([[Central German]]) {{m|goh|pipz}}, {{m|goh||*pippiz}} (modern {{cog|de|Pips}}, obsolete {{m|de|Pfipfs}}). In Dutch and Low German we should expect a form such as {{m|dum||*pippet}}, which is not attested, however. One possibility is that these dialects borrowed the Central German form and the final ''s''-sound was later reanalysed as the genitive suffix. Middle Dutch also had {{m|dum|pipeye}}, from {{cog|fro|pipie}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|nl|/pɪp/}}
* {{audio|nl|Nl-pip.ogg}}
* {{hyphenation|nl|pip}}
* {{rhyme|nl|ɪp}}

===Noun===
{{nl-noun|m|-|-}}

# [[#English|Pip]] (any of various [[respiratory]] diseases in [[birds]], especially infectious [[coryza]])
# {{lb|nl|humorous|or|colloquial}} of humans, a [[disease]] (particularly the [[common cold]] or the [[flu]]), [[malaise]] or [[depression]]

====Derived terms====
* {{l|nl|pips}}
* {{l|nl|de pip krijgen}}

==Norwegian Nynorsk==

===Etymology 1===
{{onomatopoeic|nn}}.

====Interjection====
{{head|nn|interjection}}

# [[peep]]
# [[squeak]]

====Noun====
{{nn-noun-n1}}

# [[peep]]ing [[sound]]
# act of producing a single [[peep]]ing [[sound]]

===Etymology 2===
Specialized use of Etymology 1.

====Noun====
{{nn-noun-m1}}

# {{ng|used in the expression {{m|nn|ta pipen frå}}.}}
## [[resolve]]

===Etymology 3===

====Noun====
{{nn-noun-m1}}

# [[peepee]], [[penis]]

===References===
* {{R:The Nynorsk Dictionary}}

{{C|nn|Sounds}}

==Swedish==
{{wikipedia|lang=sv}}
[[File:Spout_(PSF).png|thumb|300px|pip ({{senseno|sv|spout}})]]
[[File:Jug (Ireland), early 19th century (CH 18621221).jpg|thumb|300px|{{l|sv|tillbringare}} med lång '''pip''' [pitcher with a long '''spout'''] ({{senseno|sv|spout}})]]

===Etymology===
From {{inh|sv|non|*pípa}}, from {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*pīpaną}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{rhymes|sv|iːp|s=1}}

===Interjection===
{{head|sv|interjection}}

# [[beep]]
#: {{ux|sv|'''Pip'''! Datorn pep.|'''Beep'''! The computer beeped.}}
# [[squeak]], [[peep]]
#: {{ux|sv|"'''Pip'''!" sa musen och fågelungen|The mouse '''squeaked''' and the baby bird '''peeped'''}}

===Noun===
{{sv-noun|n}}

# a [[beep]]
#: {{ux|sv|Datorn gav ifrån sig ett '''pip'''|The computer emitted a '''beep'''}}
# a [[squeak]], a [[peep]]
#: {{ux|sv|'''Pip''' hördes från mössen och fågelungarna|'''Squeaks''' were heard from the mice and '''peeps''' from the baby birds}}
#: {{ux|sv|Vi har inte hört ett '''pip''' från dom|We haven't heard a '''peep''' from them [idiomatic]}}

====Declension====
{{sv-infl-noun-n-zero}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|sv|pipa}}
* {{l|sv|pippi}}

===Noun===
{{sv-noun|c}}

# {{senseid|sv|spout}} a [[spout]], a [[lip]] (on a vessel)
#: {{syn|sv|tut|q=colloquial}}
#: {{ux|sv|'''pipen''' på tekannan|'''the spout''' of the teapot}}
#: {{ux|sv|Förr hade mjölkkartonger '''pip''' istället för {{l|sv|kork}}|In the past, milk cartons had a '''spout''' instead of a cap}}
# a [[stem]] (narrow bottom part of a funnel)
#: {{ux|sv|{{l|sv|trattens}} '''pip'''|'''the stem''' of the funnel}}

====Declension====
{{sv-infl-noun-c-ar}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|sv|pipskägg||pointed goatee; Van Dyke beard}}

====See also====
* {{l|sv|snip||lip}}

===Verb===
{{head|sv|verb form}}

# {{verb form of|sv|pipa||imp}}

===References===
* {{R:svenska.se|so}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saol}}
* {{R:svenska.se|saob}}

{{C|sv|Animal sounds}}

==Volapük==

===Etymology===
Borrowed from {{bor|vo|fr|pipe}} and {{bor|vo|en|pipe}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|vo|/pip/}}

===Noun===
{{vo-noun}}

# [[pipe]] (for smoking)

====Declension====
{{vo-decl-noun}}

====Related terms====
* {{l|vo|smokön}}
* {{l|vo|tabak}}