Budukh edit

Etymology edit

Akin to Lezgi лепе (lepe). ultimately from persian Persian لبه.

Noun edit

лапа (lapa)

  1. a wave

Bulgarian edit

 
Меча лапа

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, possibly borrowed from Russian (omitted in Gerov's dictionary).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ла́па (lápaf (diminutive ла́пичка)

  1. paw (lower end of animal's limbs)
    попа́дам в ла́питеpopádam v lápiteto fall under control (literally, “to fall into the paws [of someone]”)
    изтръ́гвам ня́кого от ла́питеiztrǎ́gvam njákogo ot lápiteto emancipate someone from [someone else's] control/hold (literally, “to wrest someone from [someone else's] paws”)
  2. (figurative, colloquial) rough, big human's hand
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Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
  • лапа́вец (lapávec, type of flat sweetwater fish) (dialectal, regional)

References edit

  • ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
  • ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “ла́па”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاپا (lapa). Also loaned into Greek λαπα̃ς (lapãs), dialectal Albanian lapë, Romanian lapă, Aromanian lapa with similar meanings.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

лапа́ (lapáf

  1. (dialectal, dated, often only in plural) old-fashioned cataplasm (usually made of flour or barn mixed with water)
    Synonym: лече́бна ка́ша (lečébna káša)
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Etymology 3 edit

From Proto-Slavic *xlapa (slush, sleet) with colloquial elision of initial #x-, cognate with Polish chlapa. Perhaps related to Lithuanian šlãpias (wet), šlãpė (damp place or land).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

лапа́ (lapáf

  1. (obsolete) sleet, slush (mixture of rain, snow, and/or hail)
    Synonyms: ки́ша (kíša), сугра́шица (sugrášica), мо́кър сняг (mókǎr snjag)
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Derived terms edit

References edit

  • Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лапа́²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309

Etymology 4 edit

From Proto-Slavic *olpati.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

ла́па (lápa)

  1. third-person singular present indicative of ла́пам (lápam)

Anagrams edit

Macedonian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olpati.

Verb edit

лапа (lapa) third-singular presentimpf (perfective лапне)

  1. (transitive) to eat gluttonously, gobble
  2. (transitive) to place in one's mouth
  3. (transitive) to make out with
Conjugation edit

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa. Cognate with Russian ла́па (lápa), Polish łapa.

Noun edit

лапа (lapaf

  1. paw

Etymology 3 edit

Possibly from Ottoman Turkish [Term?]. Cognate with Turkish lapa, Greek λαπάς (lapás).

Noun edit

лапа (lapaf

  1. a type of dish made with rice and poppy

Russian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (the palm or hollow of the hand).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈɫapə]
  • (file)

Noun edit

ла́па (lápaf inan (genitive ла́пы, nominative plural ла́пы, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)

  1. paw
  2. (colloquial) human's hand or foot

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Ukrainian edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (the palm or hollow of the hand).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

ла́па (lápaf inan (genitive ла́пи, nominative plural ла́пи, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)

  1. paw

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