ヨーロッパ
ヨーロッパ · yooroppa · JLPT N3 · noun
Europe
🇪🇺 Europa said the Japanese way: yo-o-ro-ppa, with a long o and a doubled p
An early loanword, likely from Portuguese or Dutch Europa. The eu became yō, the r stayed, and pa got a small っ before it, so it sounds clipped: yō-ro-p-pa. It is still written in katakana as a foreign word.