kop
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Afrikaans kop, from Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop.
Noun edit
kop (plural kops)
- (South Africa) A hill or mountain.
- 2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN:
- […] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.
- 2014, Colin D. Heaton, Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler, Casemate, →ISBN:
- Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere.
The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]
- 2019, Christiaan Rudolf De Wet, Three Years' War, Good Press:
- A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek.
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
kop (plural kops)
- Rare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).
- 1917, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Proceedings, page 134:
- The solerets are wide-toed, […] ; the wings of the elbow and knee-kops small. The inner bends of the elbow joints are furnished with a pliable protection of numerous very narrow plates.
- 1994, Archaeologia Cambrensis:
- 1. Elbow Kop with rope-cable border.
2. Part of left Pauldron (shoulder piece) with similar border.
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kop (plural koppe, diminutive koppie)
Descendants edit
- → English: kop
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
kop m inan
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
kop
Further reading edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse koppr, from Middle Low German kop, from Latin cuppa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kop c (singular definite koppen, plural indefinite kopper)
- A cup; A concave vessel for holding liquid, generally adorned with either a handle or a stem (confer goblet, glass.)
- ... kop.
- Pour the wine into the cup.
Inflection edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.
Noun edit
kop m (plural koppen, diminutive kopje n)
- cup (for drinking)
- (for animals, colloquial and derogatory for humans) head
- (colloquial, by extension) a (male) human
- Wat een kwaaie kop! ― What an angry guy!
- head of a nail, pin etc.
- Je slaat de spijker op de kop. ― You hit the nail on the head.
- front, lead, e.g. in a race; charge, control.
- De underdog ligt op kop. ― The underdog is in the lead.
- heading (of a text), headline
- heads (side of a coin)
- pegbox (part of a stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs)
- one head's height
- Hij is een kop groter dan ik. ― He is a head taller than me.
Usage notes edit
It is considered impolite to refer to someone's head with kop. That word normally only refers to the head of animals, although for horses, which are considered noble animals, hoofd is generally used.
Derived terms edit
- blauwkopara
- boorkop
- bronskopeend
- de spijker op de kop slaan
- een kopje kleiner maken
- glanskop
- grijskoppurperkoet
- grijskopspecht
- kaaskop
- kalfskop
- kop of munt
- kopbal
- kopjesbekermos
- koploper
- kopman
- koppie koppie
- koppig
- kopploeg
- koppoter
- kopschool
- kopschuw
- kopspijker
- kopstuk
- koptelefoon
- kopvoeter
- kopzorg
- krantenkop
- kroeskoppelikaan
- matkop
- moorkop
- op kop liggen
- paardenkop
- roodkopklauwier
- rotkop
- schapenkop
- spijkers met koppen slaan
- stierenkop
- varkenskop
- witkopeend
- witkopgors
- zwartkop
- zwartkopgors
- zwartkopmeeuw
Descendants edit
- Afrikaans: kop
- Negerhollands: kop, koppi, kopi, kopje
- → Virgin Islands Creole: kop (dated)
- Petjo: kop
- Skepi Creole Dutch: kup
- → Caribbean Javanese: kop
- → Indonesian: kop
- → Papiamentu: kòpi, koppi (from the diminutive, dated)
- → Sranan Tongo: kopi, kopki
- → Kari'na: kopuma
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
kop
- inflection of koppen:
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
kop
- (onomatopoeia, usually repeated) knock
Further reading edit
- “kop”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa. Cognate to Afrikaans kop.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kop (first-person possessive kopku, second-person possessive kopmu, third-person possessive kopnya)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “kop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
kop m inan or m animal
- (colloquial) kick (hit or strike with the leg or foot)
Declension edit
or
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
kop
Verb edit
kop
Verb edit
kop
Further reading edit
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from kopati.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kọ̑p m inan
- hoe (tool)
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Further reading edit
- “kop”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Veps edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *kooppa. Cognates include Finnish kuoppa.
Noun edit
kop
Declension edit
Inflection of kop (inflection type 6/kuva) | |||
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nominative sing. | kop | ||
genitive sing. | kopan | ||
partitive sing. | kopad | ||
partitive plur. | kopid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | kop | kopad | |
accusative | kopan | kopad | |
genitive | kopan | kopiden | |
partitive | kopad | kopid | |
essive-instructive | kopan | kopin | |
translative | kopaks | kopikš | |
inessive | kopas | kopiš | |
elative | kopaspäi | kopišpäi | |
illative | kopaha | kopihe | |
adessive | kopal | kopil | |
ablative | kopalpäi | kopilpäi | |
allative | kopale | kopile | |
abessive | kopata | kopita | |
comitative | kopanke | kopidenke | |
prolative | kopadme | kopidme | |
approximative I | kopanno | kopidenno | |
approximative II | kopannoks | kopidennoks | |
egressive | kopannopäi | kopidennopäi | |
terminative I | kopahasai | kopihesai | |
terminative II | kopalesai | kopilesai | |
terminative III | kopassai | — | |
additive I | kopahapäi | kopihepäi | |
additive II | kopalepäi | kopilepäi |
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp. Compare Dutch kop, German Kopf.
Noun edit
kop c (plural koppen, diminutive kopke)