English Online Dictionary. What means lap? What does lap mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /læp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).
Noun
lap (plural laps)
- The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
- An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
- The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
- (figuratively) A place of rearing and fostering.
- The upper legs of a seated person.
- (archaic, euphemistic) The female pudenda. [17th century]
- (engineering) A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lap (third-person singular simple present laps, present participle lapping, simple past and past participle lapped)
- (transitive) To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
- (transitive) To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
References
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-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
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.
The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on 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)
- (transitive) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
- (transitive) to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
- (transitive) to envelop, enfold
- (intransitive) to wind around
- (transitive) To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
- (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
- (intransitive) To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
- (transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
- Antonym: unlap
- To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
lap (plural laps)
- The act or process of lapping.
- That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
- The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
- 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).
- (sports) One circuit around a race track.
- (swimming) The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
- 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.
- A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- 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
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English lappen, from Old English lapian, 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)
- (transitive, intransitive) To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
- (intransitive, of water) To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
lap (countable and uncountable, plural laps)
- The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
- (obsolete, slang, uncountable) Liquor; alcoholic drink.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Further reading
- “laper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Brachet, A. (1873) “laper”, in Kitchin, G. W., transl., Etymological dictionary of the French language (Clarendon Press Series), 1st edition, London: Oxford/MacMillan and Co.
Etymology 4
Noun
lap (plural laps)
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopy.
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparotomy.
Derived terms
- ex-lap
Adjective
lap (not comparable)
- (medicine, colloquial) Clipping of laparoscopic.
Derived terms
- lap choly
See also
- lap cheong
Anagrams
- ALP, APL, LPA, PAL, PLA, Pal, Pla, alp, pal
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch lap, from Middle Dutch lap, from Old Dutch lap.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lap/
Noun
lap (plural lappe, diminutive lappie)
- A patch, a rag, a piece of cloth.
- A plot, a tract (of ground).
Derived terms
- lappieskombers
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *lapa. An onomatopoeic cognate to Greek λάπτω (lápto, “to lick”), Lithuanian lapth (“to swallow greedily”), Proto-Slavic *lopati (“to eat greedily”), and the like. Compare Italian allappare, Sicilian allippari.
Verb
lap (aorist lapa)
- to slurp, lap up
Derived terms
- lëpij
- lëpis
References
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Middle Mongol ᠯᠠᠪ (lab). Compare Mongolian лав (lav, “clearly, actually, surely, evidently”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
lap
- even (emphasizing a comparative or superlative)
- Lap yaxşı! ― Even better!
- very
- downright, right, immediately, directly used to emphasize the following phrase
- dənizin lap kənarında ― right at the seashore
Usage notes
Determiner
lap
- very (the same; identical) (especially when used with həmin)
- lap həmin dəqiqə ― the very minute
- lap vaxtında ― at the right time
References
Further reading
- “lap” in Obastan.com.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɑp/
- 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”). Cognate with German Lappen.
Noun
lap m (plural lappen, diminutive lapje n)
- a rag, a piece of cloth
- a patch, a piece of cloth
- a slice of meat
- a plot, a tract (of ground)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: lap
- Negerhollands: lap
- → Caribbean Javanese: lap
- → Indonesian: lap
- → Papiamentu: lapi
See also
- (rag): vod
References
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)
- (obsolete, except in compounds) a bloke, dude, bum; especially a drunk or objectionable one
Derived terms
Further reading
- van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “lap2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Interjection
lap
- (chiefly Belgium) exclamation of dismay, disappointment
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
lap
- inflection of lappen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Anagrams
- pal
Hungarian
Etymology
From Proto-Uralic *lappɜ (“flat surface”), either directly or as a back-formation from lapos.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈlɒp]
- Hyphenation: lap
- Rhymes: -ɒp
Noun
lap (plural lapok)
- sheet (thin, flat piece of any solid material)
- sheet (piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, printing or other uses)
- Synonyms: ív, papírlap
- (proscribed, archaic) page (one side of a written or printed paper sheet)
- Synonym: oldal
- newspaper, magazine, periodical (publication issued regularly)
- Hyponyms: hírlap, újság, folyóirat, magazin
- greeting card, postcard (decorated card made of thick paper that is sent or given to someone)
- Hyponyms: üdvözlőlap, képeslap, levelezőlap
- playing card (one piece out of a pack of cards used to play games)
- Synonym: kártyalap
- (computing) page (one of many documents opened in a tabbed interface)
- (geometry) face (any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron)
- Synonym: (a less technical term in this sense) oldal
- (in the possessive) top (the flat, horizontal surface of a table or desk)
- Synonym: asztallap
- (in the possessive) flat (flat side of something, as opposed to the edge)
Declension
Derived terms
References
Further reading
- lap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Indonesian
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈlap/ [ˈlap]
- Rhymes: -ap
- Syllabification: lap
Etymology 1
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
- rag (a piece of old cloth, especially one used for cleaning, patching, etc.)
Verb
lap (active mengelap, passive dilap)
- to wipe
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
- lap (one circuit around a race track)
- Synonym: putaran
- lap (the traversal of one length of the pool)
Further reading
- “lap” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
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
- leaf
References
- “lap” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
Phalura
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)
- quickly
- soon
Alternative forms
- lab
References
- Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “lap”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)[12], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
Scots
Verb
lap
- simple past tense of leap
Alternative forms
- leapit
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English laugh.
Noun
lap
- laughter
Verb
lap
- to laugh