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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: yā
Preclassic Old Chinese: ʔrāp
Classic Old Chinese: ʔrāp
Western Han Chinese: ʔrāp
Eastern Han Chinese: ʔrāp
Early Postclassic Chinese: ʔạ̄p
Middle Postclassic Chinese: ʔạ̄p
Late Postclassic Chinese: ʔạ̄p
Middle Chinese: ʔạp
English meaning : to press,compress;get close,approach [L.Zhou]
Russian meaning[s]: 1) давить, жать; угнетать; 2) гнуть, сгибать; 3) прикрыть; отставить, отменить
Comments: Cf. also Viet. ẹp 'crushed, flattened' (probably borrowed from the same source). Regular Sino-Viet. is áp.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 32
Four-angle index: 213
Karlgren code: 0616 h
Go-on: efu
Kan-on: afu
Vietnamese reading: ép
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *ʔ(r)V̄p
Meaning: to press, squeeze
Chinese: 壓 *ʔrāp
Kiranti: *ʔip
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Kiranti etymology :

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Proto-Kiranti: *ʔip (/-m)
Meaning: to press, squeeze
Limbu: immaʔ
Yamphu: i:pma 'to be squeezed', jimma 'to press out'
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Limbu dictionary :

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Entry: immaʔ, -ips-/-im-
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Grammar: vt.
Meaning: press (eg. niNgɛ oil)
Derivation: [caus. < immaʔ scrub, push, budge] (?)
Comments: cf. cɔmmaʔ, phɛNmaʔ, phɛp- maʔ, phimmaʔ (2,3), phipma.
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Yamphu dictionary :

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Entry: i:pma
Kiranti etymology: Kiranti etymology
Stem: <i:b- ; i:p->
Grammar: v.intr. & v.tr.
Meaning: 1) v.intr. a) to be squeezed; b) to make oneself thin; 2) v.tr. a to press or squeeze; b) to pick stinging nettle with pliers; c) to pick up or hold between your toes, like a cloth seller may do when folding or measuring cloth; d) to carry under the arm.
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Chinese Dialects :

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Number: 2247
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 咸開二入狎影
ZIHUI: 1090 0108
Beijing: ia 11
Jinan: ia 11
Xi'an: ia 11
Taiyuan: iaʔ 41
Hankou: ia 12
Chengdu: ia 3
Yangzhou: iaʔ 4
Suzhou: a_ʔ 41
Wenzhou: a 41
Changsha: ia 4 (lit.); ŋa 4
Shuangfeng: ŋa 31
Nanchang: ŋat 41
Meixian: ap 41
Guangzhou: ŋāt 43
Xiamen: ap 41 (lit.); teʔ 41
Chaozhou: iǝp 41
Fuzhou: aʔ 41 (lit.); taʔ 41
Shanghai: aʔ 4
Zhongyuan yinyun: a 43
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