lap

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lap"

Translingual

Symbol

lap

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kabba-Laka.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Kabba-Laka terms

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-West Germanic *lappō, from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).[1][2] Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).

Noun

lap (plural laps)

  1. The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
  2. An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
  3. The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
  4. (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
    Coordinate term: knee
  5. The upper legs of a seated person.
    The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
  6. (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda. [17th century]
  7. (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
Derived terms
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Verb

lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped)

  1. (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
  2. (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

References

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “lap”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014), “lapa”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Self-published: Xlibris, →ISBN

Etymology 2

    From Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-West Germanic *wlappan and/or *wlappōn, from possible Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werb-, *werbʰ- (“to bend, turn”) if the -r- variant in Germanic is older. See warp.

    Cognate with Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap, fold up”) (from Germanic). Doublet of wrap. Also related to envelop, develop via Old French.

    The sense of “to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track” is from 1847, on the notion of “overlapping”. The noun meaning “a turn around a track” (1861) is from this sense.

    Verb

    lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped or (archaic) lapt)

    1. (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
      to lap a piece of cloth
    2. (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
      to lap a bandage around a finger
    3. (transitive) to envelop, enfold
      lapped in luxury
    4. (intransitive) to wind around
    5. (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
      One laps roof tiles so that water can run off.
    7. (transitive) To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
      Hypernym: cut
      Coordinate term: grind
    8. (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
      The cloth laps back.
      The boats lap; the edges lap.
      • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:
        The upper wings are opacous […] ; at their hinder ends, where they lap over, transparent, like the wing of a fly.
    10. (transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
      Antonym: unlap
    11. To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
    Derived terms
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    Noun

    lap (plural laps)

    1. The act or process of lapping.
    2. That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
      the lap of a board
    3. The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
      The second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
    4. The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
    5. (sports) One circuit around a race track.
      to run twenty laps
      to drive the fastest lap in qualifying
      to win by three laps
      • 2012 May 13, Andrew Benson, “Williams's Pastor Maldonado takes landmark Spanish Grand Prix win”, in BBC Sport‎[2], archived from the original on 4 August 2015:
        Alonso's second place moves him into a tie on points at the head of the championship with Sebastian Vettel, who was sixth in his Red Bull, passing Button, then Hamilton and finally Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg in quick succession in the closing laps.
    6. (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
      to swim two laps
    7. In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
    8. A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
    10. A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
    Derived terms
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    Etymology 3

      From Middle English lappen, from Old English lapian, from Proto-West Germanic *lapōn, from Proto-Germanic *lapōną, *lapjaną (“to lick; lap”), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *leh₂b- (“to lap, lick”); akin to Old High German laffen (“to lick”), Old Norse lepja, Danish labe, Old Saxon lepil, German Löffel (“spoon”). Cognate with Latin lambere (“lick”). French lamper is a loanword from German. Compare Danish leffe, dialect German läffeln.

      Verb

      lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped or (archaic) lapt)

      1. (ambitransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
        Don’t lap your soup like that! You look like a dog.
        • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
          They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk.
        • 1644, Kenelme [i.e., Kenelm] Digby, Two Treatises. In the One of which, the Nature of Bodies; in the Other, the Nature of Mans Soule; is Looked into: In Way of Discovery, of the Immortality of Reasonable Soules, Paris: […] Gilles Blaizot, →OCLC:
          The dogs by the River Nilus's side, being thirsty, lap hastily […] as they run along the shore.
      2. (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
      Derived terms
      Translations

      Noun

      lap (countable and uncountable, plural laps)

      1. The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
        • 1955, Ann Haven Morgan, Kinships of Animals and Man: A Textbook of Animal Biology, page 176:
          With each lap of its tongue a cat gathers up milk and throws it well back into the gateway of its throat […]
      2. (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Liquor; alcoholic drink.
      Translations
      Translations
      References
      • John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary

      Further reading

      Etymology 4

        Noun

        lap (plural laps)

        1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy.
        2. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparotomy
        Derived terms

        Adjective

        lap (not comparable)

        1. (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopic.
        Derived terms

        See also

        Anagrams

        Afrikaans

        Etymology

        From Dutch lap, from Middle Dutch lap, from Old Dutch lap.

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /lap/

        Noun

        lap (plural lappe, diminutive lappie)

        1. A patch, a rag, a piece of cloth.
        2. A plot, a tract (of ground).

        Derived terms

        • lappieskombers

        Albanian

        Verb

        lap (aorist lapa, participle lapur)

        1. (dialectal) alternative form of llap

        References

        • Rossi, F. (1875), “làpp”, in Vocabolario della lingua epirotica–italiana (in Italian), page 722b
        • Meyer, G. (1891), “ľap”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 237
        • Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997), “lëpí/j”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: […]] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[3] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 242
        • Orel, Vladimir (1998), “lap”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 212

        Azerbaijani

        Etymology

          Derived from Middle Mongol ᠯᠠᠪ (lab).[1][2] Compare Mongolian лав (lav, “clearly, actually, surely, evidently”).

          Pronunciation

          Adverb

          lap

          1. even (emphasizing a comparative or superlative)
            Lap yaxşı! ― Even better![nt. 1]
          2. very
          3. downright, right, immediately, directly used to emphasize the following phrase
            dənizin lap kənarında ― right at the seashore

          Usage notes

          1. ^ Lap yaxşı is also used as a response to the interlocutor introducing him or herself and can be understood as a less formal way of saying 'nice to meet you':
            — Adın nədir?
            — Yaqub.
            — Lap yaxşı.
            — What is your name?
            — Jacob.
            — Very good.

          Determiner

          lap

          1. very (the same; identical) (especially when used with həmin)
            lap həmin dəqiqə ― the very minute
            lap vaxtında ― at the right time

          Descendants

          • → Armenian: լափ (lapʻ)
          • → Georgian: ლაფ (lap) — Ingilo

          References

          1. ^ Caferoğlu, A. (1954). Azerbaycan ve Anadolu Ağızlarındaki Moğolca Unsurlar. Türk Dili Araştırmaları Yıllığı-Belleten
          2. ^ Tokat, Feyza (2014), “On the Common Words in Mongolian and the Turkish Dialects in Turkey”, in The Journal of International Social Research (Uluslararası Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi)‎[1], volume 7, number 32, →ISSN, pages 185-198.

          Danish

          Etymology 1

          Via Norwegian lapp, from Old Norse leppr, from Proto-Germanic *lappaz. Related to Latin lapsus.

          Noun

          lap c (singular definite lappen, plural indefinite lapper)

          1. a rag, a piece of cloth
            Coordinate term: flig
          2. a patch

          Declension

          Declension of lap
          common
          gender           		singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative lap lappen lapper lapperne
          genitive laps lappens lappers lappernes

          Derived terms

          • grydelap
          • hudlap
          • hundredlap
          • lappe
          • lappefod
          • læderlap
          • papirlap
          • skindlap
          • stænklap

          Etymology 2

          Likely from Finnish lappalainen.

          Noun

          lap c (singular definite lappen, plural indefinite lapper)

          1. a Sami
            Synonym: same

          Declension

          Declension of lap
          common
          gender           		singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative lap lappen lapper lapperne
          genitive laps lappens lappers lappernes

          Derived terms

          References

          Dutch

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /lɑp/
          • Audio:(file)
          • Hyphenation: lap
          • Rhymes: -ɑp

          Etymology 1

          From Middle Dutch lap, lappe, from Old Dutch lap, from Proto-Germanic *lappa-, *lappô (“rag, cloth”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).[1][2] Cognate with German Lappen.

          Noun

          lap m (plural lappen, diminutive lapje n)

          1. a rag, a piece of cloth
          2. a patch, a piece of cloth
          3. a slice of meat
          4. a plot, a tract (of ground)
          5. (dialectical, Belgium) a slap, a punch
          Derived terms
          Descendants
          • Afrikaans: lap
          • Negerhollands: lap
          • → Caribbean Javanese: lap
          • → Indonesian: lap
          • → Papiamentu: lapi

          See also

          References

          1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “lap”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
          2. ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014), “lapa”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Self-published: Xlibris, →ISBN

          Etymology 2

          Probably from Etymology 1 above, which dialectally meant "blow, strike", from which a semantic shift may have taken place to "stupidity". Or, possibly related leppen (“to lap up, drink sloppily or audibly”); the semantic shift would then be from "childlike" (as one who drinks sloppily) to "foolish".

          Noun

          lap m (plural lappen, diminutive lapje n)

          1. (obsolete, except in compounds) a bloke, dude, bum; especially a drunk or objectionable one
          Derived terms

          Further reading

          Etymology 3

          (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

          Interjection

          lap

          1. (chiefly Belgium) exclamation of dismay, disappointment

          Etymology 4

          See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

          Verb

          lap

          1. inflection of lappen:
            1. first-person singular present indicative
            2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
            3. imperative

          Anagrams

          Hungarian

          (1) üveglap
          (2) papírlap
          (4) napilap

          Etymology

          From Proto-Uralic *lappɜ (“flat surface”), either directly or as a back-formation from lapos.[1][2]

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): [ˈlɒp]
          • Audio:(file)
          • Hyphenation: lap
          • Rhymes: -ɒp

          Noun

          lap (plural lapok)

          1. sheet (thin, flat piece of any solid material)
            • 2004, “Spárgatorta”, in Petőfi Népe‎[4], volume 59, number 117:
              A leveles tésztát kinyújtjuk, a lapokat egymásra fektetjük, és még egyszer kinyújtjuk.
              Roll out the puff pastry dough, lay the sheets on top of each other, and roll out once more.
          2. sheet (piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, printing or other uses)
            Synonyms: ív, papírlap
            • 1982, István Pintér, “A Veréb is akció”, in Somogyi Néplap‎[5], volume 38, number 285:
              Kitépett egy lapot a noteszából, néhány sort írt rá.
              He tore a sheet from his notebook and wrote a couple of lines on it.
          3. (proscribed, archaic) page (one side of a written or printed paper sheet)
            Synonym: oldal
            • 1868, Balázs Orbán, “Sugópatak zuhatagjai”, in A Székelyföld leírása:
              Mellékelt képünk ezen zuhatagot tünteti elő. (Lásd a 74. lapon.)
              The accompanying illustration shows this waterfall. (See page 74.)
          4. newspaper, magazine, periodical (publication issued regularly)
            Hyponyms: hírlap, újság, folyóirat, magazin
            • 1930, “Újdonságok”, in Pápai Hírlap‎[6], volume 27, number 45:
              Ezenkívül háziipari, iparművészeti, háztartási cikkeket olvasunk ebben az egyedülálló magyar női lapban.
              We can also read articles on homecrafts, applied arts and housekeeping in this unique Hungarian women's magazine.
          5. greeting card, postcard (decorated card made of thick paper that is sent or given to someone)
            Hyponyms: üdvözlőlap, képeslap, levelezőlap
            • 1994, Tivadar Petercsák, chapter I, in A képes levelezőlap története‎[7]:
              A lapok címzési oldalának jobb felső sarkába nyomtatták a sárga színű bélyeget.
              The yellow stamp was printed in the top right corner of the address side of the cards.
          6. playing card (one piece out of a pack of cards used to play games)
            Synonym: kártyalap
            • 1992, György Somlyó, “Azután”, in Holmi‎[8], volume 4, number 4:
              A pakliban egyetlen cinkelt lap sem található.
              There isn't a single marked card in the deck.
          7. (computing) page (one of many documents opened in a tabbed interface)
            • 2011, Botond Kopacz, “1.4 Biztonsági funkciók”, in Internet Explorer 9 a zsebben‎[9]:
              De mi a helyzet abban az esetben, ha egyszerre több megnyitott lappal dolgozunk, és az egyik lap lefagy?
              But what if we are working with several pages open at once, and one of them crashes?
          8. (geometry) face (any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron)
            Synonym: (a less technical term in this sense) oldal
            • 1983, Euclid, “Tizenkettedik könyv”, in Gyula Mayer, transl., Elemek‎[10]:
              Vegyünk egy hasábot, melynek alapja az ABC háromszög s szemközti lapja DEF.
              Consider a prism whose base is triangle ABC, and the opposite face is DEF.
          9. (in the possessive) top (the flat, horizontal surface of a table or desk)
            Synonym: asztallap
            • 1915, Kurt Matull, chapter XV, in A ​przemysli repülő‎[11]:
              Leült az íróasztala elé, keresztbe tette lábait és idegesen dobolt az asztal lapján.
              He sat down before his desk, crossed his legs and started nervously tapping on the desktop.
          10. (in the possessive) flat (flat side of something, as opposed to the edge)
            • 2013, “Csábító fogások vasban gazdag májjal”, in Heves Megyei Hírlap‎[12], volume 24, number 45:
              A fokhagymát megtisztítjuk, és a kés lapjával szétnyomjuk.
              Peel the garlic, and crush it with the flat of the knife.

          Declension

          Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
          singular plural
          nominative lap lapok
          accusative lapot lapokat
          dative lapnak lapoknak
          instrumental lappal lapokkal
          causal-final lapért lapokért
          translative lappá lapokká
          terminative lapig lapokig
          essive-formal lapként lapokként
          essive-modal — —
          inessive lapban lapokban
          superessive lapon lapokon
          adessive lapnál lapoknál
          illative lapba lapokba
          sublative lapra lapokra
          allative laphoz lapokhoz
          elative lapból lapokból
          delative lapról lapokról
          ablative laptól lapoktól
          non-attributive
          possessive – singular           		lapé lapoké
          non-attributive
          possessive – plural           		lapéi lapokéi
          Possessive forms of lap
          possessor single possession multiple possessions
          1st person sing. lapom lapjaim
          2nd person sing. lapod lapjaid
          3rd person sing. lapja lapjai
          1st person plural lapunk lapjaink
          2nd person plural lapotok lapjaitok
          3rd person plural lapjuk lapjaik

          Derived terms

          Compound words with this term at the beginning
          • lapadagoló
          • lapalapítás
          • lapalji
          • lapbizományos
          • lapcentrált
          • lapengedély
          • lapértesülés
          • lapgazda
          • laphiba
          • lapjárás
          • lapkeret
          • lapkiadó
          • lapkihordó
          • lapkivágat, lapkivágás
          • lapnyomtató
          • lapolvasó
          • lapradiátor
          • lapszabászat
          • lapszám
          • lapszemle
          • lapszerkesztő
          • lapszél, lapszéli
          • lapszoknya
          • lapszög
          • laptartó
          • laptábla
          • laptárs
          • lapterjesztés, lapterjesztő
          • laptudósító
          • laptulajdonos
          • lapzárta
          Compound words with this term at the end
          Expressions

          References

          1. ^ Entry #458 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
          2. ^ lap in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

          Further reading

          • lap in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

          Indonesian

          Pronunciation

          Etymology 1

          Borrowed from Dutch lap, from Middle Dutch lap, lappe, from Old Dutch lap, from Proto-Germanic *lappa-, *lappô (“rag, cloth”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).

          Noun

          lap (plural lap-lap)

          1. rag (a piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.)

          Verb

          lap

          1. to wipe

          Derived terms

          Affixations

          Etymology 2

          From English lap, from Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).

          Noun

          lap

          1. lap (one circuit around a race track)
            Synonym: putaran
          2. lap (the traversal of one length of the pool)

          Further reading

          Malay

          Etymology

          Borrowed from Dutch lap, from Middle Dutch lap, lappe, from Old Dutch lap, from Proto-Germanic *lappa-, *lappô (“rag, cloth”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).

          Pronunciation

          Noun

          lap (Jawi spelling لڤ, plural lap-lap)

          1. rag

          Verb

          lap (Jawi spelling لڤ, active mengelap, third-person passive dilap)

          1. to wipe

          Derived terms

          Affixations

          Further reading

          • "lap" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
            (also see "lap" at PRPM first version)

          Mòcheno

          Etymology

          From Middle High German loup, from Old High German loup, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”). Cognate with German Laub, English leaf.

          Noun

          lap n

          1. leaf

          References

          Old Khmer

          Etymology 1

          Verb

          lap

          1. Latin script form of លប៑ (“to sneak, skulk, steal”)

          Etymology 2

          Verb

          lap

          1. Latin script form of លប៑ (“to fill; to smear, wipe out; etc”)

          Palula

          Etymology

          (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

          Pronunciation

          • IPA(key): /lap/

          Adverb

          lap (Perso-Arabic spelling لپ)

          1. quickly
          2. soon

          Alternative forms

          References

          • Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “lap”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[13], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

          Scots

          Verb

          lap

          1. simple past tense of leap

          Alternative forms

          • leapit

          Tok Pisin

          Etymology

          From English laugh.

          Noun

          lap

          1. laughter

          Verb

          lap

          1. to laugh

          Ventureño

          Etymology 1

          (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

          Noun

          lap

          1. trout

          Etymology 2

          (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

          Noun

          lap

          1. (anatomy) calf (of leg)

          References

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