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) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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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)