alap
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Sanskrit आलापा (ālāpā).
NounEdit
alap (plural alaps)
- (music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 176:
- The alaap is the part of our classical music that I like best. It is an inward voyage, an odyssey into the unknown.
- 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 176:
AnagramsEdit
GaloEdit
NounEdit
alap
HungarianEdit
EtymologyEdit
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PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
alap (plural alapok)
- base, foundation
- (figuratively, especially in the forms alapon and alapján) (on a…) basis, (on the) basis (of…), (on the) grounds (of…), (by the) token (of…), (as a) matter (of…), (by) reason (of…), (at a/the/that) rate (that…)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | alap | alapok |
accusative | alapot | alapokat |
dative | alapnak | alapoknak |
instrumental | alappal | alapokkal |
causal-final | alapért | alapokért |
translative | alappá | alapokká |
terminative | alapig | alapokig |
essive-formal | alapként | alapokként |
essive-modal | alapul | alapokul |
inessive | alapban | alapokban |
superessive | alapon | alapokon |
adessive | alapnál | alapoknál |
illative | alapba | alapokba |
sublative | alapra | alapokra |
allative | alaphoz | alapokhoz |
elative | alapból | alapokból |
delative | alapról | alapokról |
ablative | alaptól | alapoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
alapé | alapoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
alapéi | alapokéi |
Possessive forms of alap | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | alapom | alapjaim |
2nd person sing. | alapod | alapjaid |
3rd person sing. | alapja | alapjai |
1st person plural | alapunk | alapjaink |
2nd person plural | alapotok | alapjaitok |
3rd person plural | alapjuk | alapjaik |
Derived termsEdit
Compound words
Further readingEdit
- alap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- alap in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)