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alapa

English

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Noun

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alapa (plural alapas)

  1. Alternative form of alap

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Latin

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Etymology

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Of unknown origin.

Originally used by Romans to refer to the strike given from master to slave upon manumission as a final act of indignity. First attested in Phaedrus when the Empire was already greatly expanded, then in the Semitic loanword-ridden Juvenal and largely attested in the Christian writings, i. e. from the proponents of a Semitic religion.

Hence, probably from Aramaic אַלַּף (allap̄, “to teach”), and/or from Proto-Semitic *ʔallipa (“to tame, to domesticate; to familiarize, to instruct, to put together, to join”), related via the idea of an ox trained to Proto-Semitic *ʔalp- (“ox, ox in a yoke”).

Noun

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alapa f (genitive alapae); first declension

  1. slap, smack (with the flat of the hand)

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative alapa alapae
Genitive alapae alapārum
Dative alapae alapīs
Accusative alapam alapās
Ablative alapā alapīs
Vocative alapa alapae

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Verb

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alapa

  1. inflection of alapar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Yoruba

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Etymology 1

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From oní (“the one/thing that has”) +‎ apá (“arm”)

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Noun

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alápá

  1. something armed, with arms

Etymology 2

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àlápà

  1. (Ijebu) melon cake

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àlápà

  1. (Ijebu) pepper soup
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