wrap

See also: Wrap

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) enPR: răp, IPA^(key): /ɹæp/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

  • Rhymes: -æp
  • Homophone: rap
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɹɒp/
• (Early Modern) IPA^(key): /(w)ræp/

Etymology 1

From Middle English wrappen (“to wrap, fold”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to North Frisian wrappe (“to press into; stop up”), dialectal Danish vrappe (“to stuff, cram”), Middle Low German rincworpen (“to envelop, wrap”), Middle Low German wrempen (“to wrinkle, scrunch the face”), all perhaps tied to Proto-Indo-European *werp-, *werb-, or *werbʰ- (“to turn, twist, bend”), perhaps by way of a pre-Germanic iterative *wrappōną and thus a piecewise doublet of warp.

Compare also similar-sounding and similar-meaning Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, lap, envelop, fold”), Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). Doublet of lap; related to envelop, develop. Also compare Latin verber (“whip, lash”).

Alternative forms

• wrop (dialectal)

Verb

wrap (third-person singular simple present wraps, present participle wrapping, simple past and past participle wrapped or (archaic) wrapt)

1. (transitive) To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper.

   Synonyms: bind, wind

   Christmas gifts are commonly known to be wrapped in paper.

   • 1947, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Case of the Barking Clock:

     I then dried these over a flame, and then, wrapping the formes and re-sealing them with my court seals — for my only commission, you see, was to report as to whether the type was unpied, and text ungarbled, and the formes all ready […]

2. (transitive) To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping.

   A snake wraps itself around its prey.

   • 1811, William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis:

     Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch / About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

   • 2003, Gary Tigerman, The Orion Protocol, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, →ISBN, page 143:

     The prehistoric caribou they had already liberated was wrapped in a space blanket and carefully tied to a sled. The Science Foundation team had then moved on to a deep translucent blue seam in the ice that proved to be a window on the rest of the ungulant herd standing poised in suspended animation, as if waiting for time to start again.

3. (transitive, figurative) To conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide.
   • a. 1640, Thomas Carew, Ingrateful Beauty Threatened:

     wise poets that wrap truth in tales

4. (transitive or intransitive, video production) To finish shooting (filming) a video, television show, or movie.

   To avoid going over budget, let's make sure we wrap by ten. (compare wrap up 2)

5. (transitive, lines, words, text, etc.) To break a continuous line (of text) onto the next line

   I wrapped the text so that I wouldn't need to scroll to the right to read it.

6. (computing, transitive) To make functionality available through a software wrapper.
7. (transitive or intransitive) To (cause to) reset to an original value after passing a maximum.

   The row counter wraps back to zero when no more rows can be inserted.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:wrap.

Synonyms

• (enclose in fabric, paper, etc): enfold, lap, enswathe, envelop,

Antonyms

• unwrap

Derived terms

• autowrap
• backwrap
• bewrap
• clingwrap
• enwrap
• forwrap
• gift-wrap
• interwrap
• miswrap
• not wrapped too tight
• overwrap
• prewrap
• rewrap
• riddle wrapped up in an enigma
• shrink-wrap
• shrinkwrap
• shrink-wrapped
• soft-wrap
• underwrap
• wrap around
• wrap around one's little finger
• wrap-around, wraparound
• wrap in cotton wool
• wrap in the flag
• wrap it before you tap it
• wraple
• wrap one's arms around
• wrap one's brain around
• wrap one's head around
• wrap one's mind around
• wrapover
• wrappable
• wrappage
• wrapper
• wrapping
• wraprascal
• wrapround, wrap-round
• wrap-up (noun)
• wrap up (verb)

Translations

to enclose completely in fabric, paper, etc

• Arabic: لَفَّ (laffa), غَلَّفَ (ḡallafa)
• Armenian: փաթեթավորել (hy) (pʻatʻetʻavorel)
• Assamese: মেৰিওৱা (meriüa)
• Azerbaijani: bükmək (az), bürümək (az)
• Bulgarian: увивам (bg) (uvivam)
• Catalan: embolicar (ca) (Algherese)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 包裝 / 包装 (zh) (bāozhuāng), 包 (zh) (bāo), 密封 (zh) (mìfēng), 包裹 (zh) (bāoguǒ)

• Choctaw: afohommi, afoachi
• Danish: pakke ind
• Dutch: inpakken (nl), omhullen (nl)
• Esperanto: envolvi
• Faroese: pakka inn
• Finnish: kääriä (fi)
• French: envelopper (fr), emballer (fr)
• Galician: envurullar (gl), embalar (gl), envolver (gl), lear (gl)
• Gallurese: imbulicà
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: wickeln (de), einwickeln (de), einpacken (de), hüllen (de), umhüllen (de)
• Greek: τυλίγω (el) (tylígo)

  Ancient Greek: εἰλύω (eilúō)

• Guarani:

  Mbya Guarani: nhovã

• Hawaiian: ʻope
• Hebrew: כרך (he) (karákh), עטף (he) (atáf)
• Hindi: लपेटना (hi) (lapeṭnā)
• Hungarian: becsomagol (hu)
• Icelandic: pakka inn
• Indonesian: bungkus (id), balut (id)
• Ingrian: kääriä
• Italian: avvolgere (it), avviluppare (it), incartare (it), impacchettare (it)
• Japanese: 包む (ja) (つつむ, tsutsumu), 包装する (ja) (ほうそうする, hōsō suru)
• Kabuverdianu: inbrudja
• Khmer: រុំ (km) (rum)
• Koasati: stabonohli
• Korean: 싸다 (ko) (ssada), 포장하다 (pojanghada)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: involvo, velo
• Ligurian: incastunò
• Low German:

  German Low German: wrümpeln

• Malay: balut (ms), bungkus (ms)
• Malayalam: പൊതിയുക (ml) (potiyuka)
• Māori: kope, whakakopa, kōpaki, ruruku,
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: patchi
• Occitan: embalar (oc)
• Persian: بسته‌بندی کردن (baste-bandi kardan), پیچیدن (fa) (pičidan)
• Polish: zawijać (pl) impf, zawinąć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: embalar (pt), empacotar (pt), embrulhar (pt)
• Rarotongan: ʻopa
• Romanian: înfășura (ro), împacheta (ro)
• Russian: завора́чивать (ru) impf (zavoráčivatʹ), заверну́ть (ru) pf (zavernútʹ), обора́чивать (ru) impf (oboráčivatʹ), оберну́ть (ru) pf (obernútʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese: imboligare

• Sassarese: imbolicare, imburigà
• Spanish: envolver (es), fajar (es)
• Swedish: slå in (sv), paketera (sv), emballera (sv), linda in (sv), klä in
• Tày: ben
• Tetum: falun
• Thai: ห่อ (th) (hɔ̀ɔ)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صارمق (sarmak)

• Ukrainian: завертат́и impf (zavertat́y), заверну́ти pf (zavernúty), обгорта́ти impf (obhortáty), обгорну́ти pf (obhornúty)
• Ulithian: diugmi
• Vietnamese: gói (vi), bao (vi), bọc (vi)
• Yiddish: וויקלען (viklen), הילן (hiln)

to enclose or coil around an object or organism

• Bulgarian: обвивам (bg) (obvivam)
• Finnish: kiertää (fi), ympäröidä (fi)
• French: enrouler (fr)
• Galician: lear (gl)
• German: schlingen (de)
• Māori: tākai, takai, takaore, niko
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صارمق (sarmak)

figuratively: to conceal by enveloping or enfolding; to hide

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kätkeä (fi), piilottaa (fi)
• German: hüllen (de), einhüllen (de)

to finish shooting a video, television show, or movie

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: purkittaa (fi)
• German: Dreharbeiten beenden

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Etymology 2

From Middle English wrappe, from the verb (see above).

Noun

wrap (countable and uncountable, plural wraps)

1. Paper or sheeting that is wrapped around something to protect, contain, or conceal it.
   1. (automotive) A large sheet of self-adhesive material applied over a vehicle's paintwork for decorative or protective purposes.
      • 2025 December 9, Jori Finkel, “How Art Is Driving Waymo’s Feel-Good Branding”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

        The media theorist Peter Lunenfeld […] says illustrative art is often used to defang threatening technology. He compares the Waymo wraps to Google Doodles, which distract people while they are using a complex and opaque search engine algorithm that is “almost fully beyond our ken.”

        (Can we archive this URL?)

2. A loose piece of women's clothing that one wraps around the body; a shawl or scarf.
3. (chiefly in the plural, now rare) An outer garment worn as protection while riding, travelling etc.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book I, chapter 6:

     ‘I see you have had our Lowick Cicero here,’ she said, seating herself comfortably, throwing back her wraps, and showing a thin but well-built figure.

4. A type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake.
5. (entertainment) The completion of all or a major part of a performance.
   • 1994, Olivia Goldsmith, Fashionably Late:

     But she could knock off right after the wrap, have dinner, and take a later flight.

   • 2003 January 12, “Encore Presentation: Interview With the Bee Gees”, in CNN_KingWknd:

     The first time I met him is when we went to the – after the wrap party, we went to a little sound room – or a little screening room and watched the preview

   • 2009 November 14, Fox News Watch:

     And that's a wrap on "News Watch." For Judy, Jim, Cal and Kirsten, I'm Jon Scott. We'll see you again next week.'

6. A wraparound mortgage.
7. (television, radio) A complete news report ready for broadcast, incorporating spoken reporting and other material.

   Synonym: package

   • 2005, Alan R. Stephenson, David E. Reese, Mary E. Beadle, Broadcast Announcing Worktext, page 164:

     This is a news report from the scene of the event. When a voicer and an actuality are combined into one complete story, it's known as a wrap.

   • 2005, Ted White, Broadcast News: Writing, Reporting, and Producing, page 245:

     Attend a news conference, and prepare a wrap or package.

8. The act of wrapping.

   Give the present a quick wrap before James sees it.

   • 2026, Tom Knisley, “Exploring S- and Z-Twist”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 42:

     I started out by wrapping the first thread around a ruler for 1 inch and found that it had 24 wraps to the inch.

9. (poker slang) A straight draw in which there are more than 8 outs to complete the straight, especially in Omaha hold 'em.

   Coordinate terms: inside straight draw, up and down straight draw, open ended straight draw, gut-shot straight

Derived terms

• alpha wrap
• autowrap
• backwrap
• belly wrap
• body wrap
• book wrap
• breakfast wrap
• browsewrap
• bubble-wrap
• bubble wrap
• cash wrap
• clickwrap
• cling-wrap
• cling wrap
• daily wrap
• diaper wrap
• evening wrap
• fish wrap
• fish-wrap
• food wrap
• footwrap
• gift-wrap, giftwrap
• glad wrap
• headwrap
• housewrap
• interwrap
• miswrap
• nappy wrap
• omega wrap
• overwrap
• polywrap
• saran-wrap
• Saran wrap
• saran wrap
• shrinkwrap
• spider wrap
• stretch wrap
• tea-wrap
• that's a wrap
• tie wrap
• underwrap
• under wraps
• upwrap
• voice wrap
• waistwrap
• wire wrap
• word wrap
• wrap account
• wrap dress
• wrap party
• wrap service
• wrap-up
• wrist wrap

Translations

paper or sheeting wrapped around something

• Bulgarian: опаковка f (opakovka)
• Choctaw: afoachi
• Finnish: kääre (fi)
• German: Umhüllung (de) f, Verpackung (de) f
• Malay: bungkus (ms)
• Polish: opakowanie (pl) n

garment

• Bulgarian: наметка (bg) f (nametka), голям шал (goljam šal)
• Czech: přehoz m, plášť (cs) m
• Dutch: omslag (nl)
• Finnish: peitto (fi)
• French: écharpe (fr) f, foulard (fr) m
• German: Schal (de) m, Umhang (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: περιβόλαιον n (peribólaion)

• Italian: scialle (it) m, sciarpa (it) f, cappotto (it) m
• Māori: hikurere
• Polish: szal (pl) m
• Romanian: șal (ro) n, veșmânt înfășurător (ro) n
• Russian: шаль (ru) f (šalʹ)
• Spanish: chal (es) m, mantilla (es) f
• Swedish: skynke (sv) n, sjal (sv) c

food

• Armenian: բրդուճ (hy) (brduč)
• Azerbaijani: dürmək
• Bulgarian: рап m (rap)
• Esperanto: vrapo
• Finnish: rulla (fi), wrap (fi), wrappi
• French: crêpe (fr) f, wrap (fr) m
• Georgian: კრეპი (ḳreṗi), ვრეპი (vreṗi) (colloquial)
• German: Wrap (de) m
• Italian: rotolo (it) m, sandwich arrotolato m
• Polish: wrap (pl) m
• Russian: врап (vrap)
• Spanish: wrap (es) m, burrito (es) m
• Swedish: rulle (sv)

  Stockholm: klämma (sv)

  Swenglish: wrap (sv), burrito (sv), crêpe (sv)

• Turkish: dürüm (tr)

the completion of all or a major part of a performance

• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Drehschluss m

Etymology 3

Noun

wrap (plural wraps)

1. (Australia, informal) Alternative spelling of rap (“appraisal”).

Anagrams

• warp

Finnish

Etymology

From English wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwræp/, [ˈwræp]
• IPA^(key): /ˈræp/, [ˈræp]
• IPA^(key): /ˈʋræp/, [ˈʋræp]
• Rhymes: -æp

Noun

wrap

1. wrap (food)

Declension

Inflection of wrap (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		wrap	wrapit
genitive		wrapin	wrapien
partitive		wrapia	wrapeja
illative		wrapiin	wrapeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		wrap	wrapit
accusative	nom.	wrap	wrapit
	gen.	wrapin
genitive		wrapin	wrapien
partitive		wrapia	wrapeja
inessive		wrapissa	wrapeissa
elative		wrapista	wrapeista
illative		wrapiin	wrapeihin
adessive		wrapilla	wrapeilla
ablative		wrapilta	wrapeilta
allative		wrapille	wrapeille
essive		wrapina	wrapeina
translative		wrapiksi	wrapeiksi
abessive		wrapitta	wrapeitta
instructive		—	wrapein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of wrap (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative wrapini wrapini accusative nom. wrapini wrapini gen. wrapini genitive wrapini wrapieni partitive wrapiani wrapejani inessive wrapissani wrapeissani elative wrapistani wrapeistani illative wrapiini wrapeihini adessive wrapillani wrapeillani ablative wrapiltani wrapeiltani allative wrapilleni wrapeilleni essive wrapinani wrapeinani translative wrapikseni wrapeikseni abessive wrapittani wrapeittani instructive — — comitative — wrapeineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative wrapisi wrapisi accusative nom. wrapisi wrapisi gen. wrapisi genitive wrapisi wrapiesi partitive wrapiasi wrapejasi inessive wrapissasi wrapeissasi elative wrapistasi wrapeistasi illative wrapiisi wrapeihisi adessive wrapillasi wrapeillasi ablative wrapiltasi wrapeiltasi allative wrapillesi wrapeillesi essive wrapinasi wrapeinasi translative wrapiksesi wrapeiksesi abessive wrapittasi wrapeittasi instructive — — comitative — wrapeinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative wrapimme wrapimme accusative nom. wrapimme wrapimme gen. wrapimme genitive wrapimme wrapiemme partitive wrapiamme wrapejamme inessive wrapissamme wrapeissamme elative wrapistamme wrapeistamme illative wrapiimme wrapeihimme adessive wrapillamme wrapeillamme ablative wrapiltamme wrapeiltamme allative wrapillemme wrapeillemme essive wrapinamme wrapeinamme translative wrapiksemme wrapeiksemme abessive wrapittamme wrapeittamme instructive — — comitative — wrapeinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative wrapinne wrapinne accusative nom. wrapinne wrapinne gen. wrapinne genitive wrapinne wrapienne partitive wrapianne wrapejanne inessive wrapissanne wrapeissanne elative wrapistanne wrapeistanne illative wrapiinne wrapeihinne adessive wrapillanne wrapeillanne ablative wrapiltanne wrapeiltanne allative wrapillenne wrapeillenne essive wrapinanne wrapeinanne translative wrapiksenne wrapeiksenne abessive wrapittanne wrapeittanne instructive — — comitative — wrapeinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative wrapinsa wrapinsa accusative nom. wrapinsa wrapinsa gen. wrapinsa genitive wrapinsa wrapiensa partitive wrapiaan wrapiansa wrapejaan wrapejansa inessive wrapissaan wrapissansa wrapeissaan wrapeissansa elative wrapistaan wrapistansa wrapeistaan wrapeistansa illative wrapiinsa wrapeihinsa adessive wrapillaan wrapillansa wrapeillaan wrapeillansa ablative wrapiltaan wrapiltansa wrapeiltaan wrapeiltansa allative wrapilleen wrapillensa wrapeilleen wrapeillensa essive wrapinaan wrapinansa wrapeinaan wrapeinansa translative wrapikseen wrapiksensa wrapeikseen wrapeiksensa abessive wrapittaan wrapittansa wrapeittaan wrapeittansa instructive — — comitative — wrapeineen wrapeinensa

Inflection of wrap (type 5*B/risti) singular plural nominative wrap wrapit genitive wrapin wrappien partitive wrappiä wrappejä accusative wrap wrapin wrapit inessive wrapissä wrapeissä elative wrapistä wrapeistä illative wrappiin wrappeihin adessive wrapillä wrapeillä ablative wrapiltä wrapeiltä allative wrapille wrapeille essive wrappinä wrappeinä translative wrapiksi wrapeiksi abessive wrapittä wrapeittä instructive – wrapein comitative – wrappeineen

Synonyms

• rulla
• wrappi

Further reading

• “wrap”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 4 July 2023

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁap/, /vʁap/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

  (file)

• Homophones: rap, râpe

Noun

wrap m (plural wraps)

1. wrap (sandwich)

Polish

wrap

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrap/, /ˈvrap/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ap
• Syllabification: wrap
• Homophones: rab, Rab, rap

Noun

wrap m animal or m inan

1. wrap (type of food consisting of various ingredients wrapped in a tortilla or pancake)

Declension

Declension of wrap

	singular	plural
nominative	wrap	wrapy
genitive	wrapa	wrapów
dative	wrapowi	wrapom
accusative	wrapa, wrap	wrapy
instrumental	wrapem	wrapami
locative	wrapie	wrapach
vocative	wrapie	wrapy

Further reading

• “wrap”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[4] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “wrap”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[5] (in Polish)
• wrap at Obserwatorium językowe Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wrap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrap/ [ˈrap]
• Rhymes: -ap

Noun

wrap m (plural wraps)

1. wrap (sandwich)

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.