See also: Jap, JAP, Jap., and jap.

English

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Etymology

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Shortening of Japanese, in reference to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

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jap (third-person singular simple present japs, present participle japping, simple past and past participle japped)

  1. (Canada, US, ethnic slur, slang, transitive) To carry out a sneak attack upon (something or somebody).

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Albanian

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Etymology

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Variant of dialectal ap, from Proto-Albanian *apa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁op-eio/e-, from *h₁ep- (to take).[1] The verb is suppletive with past dhashë and participle dhënë from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-.[2]

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jap (aorist dhashë, participle dhënë) (Tosk)

  1. to give

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References

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  1. ^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 79

Cypriot Arabic

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Root
j-y-b
1 term

Etymology

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From common dialectal Arabic جَابَ (jāba), from a univerbation of جَاءَ بِ (jāʔa bi-, literally to come with), equivalent to Cypriot Arabic ja +‎ b-. Cognate with Egyptian Arabic جاب (gāb, to bring), Moroccan Arabic جاب (jāb, to bring) and Maltese ġab (to bring).

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jap I (present pijíp)

  1. to bring

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  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 192

Dutch

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jap m (plural jappen)

  1. (official spelling) Alternative letter-case form of Jap

German

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jap

  1. (colloquial) yep; yup; yop

Rayón Zoque

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Noun

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jap

  1. ash
  2. lime (calcium-containing material)

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  • Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 9

Romanian

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Onomatopoeic.

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jap

  1. smack