kop

See also: Kop, kóp, köp, and kʼop

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Afrikaans kop, from Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop.

NounEdit

kop (plural kops)

(South Africa) A hill or mountain.
- 2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown (→ISBN):
  […] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.
- 2014, Colin D. Heaton, Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler, Casemate (→ISBN):
  Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere.
  
  The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]
- 2019, Christiaan Rudolf De Wet, Three Years' War, Good Press:
  A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek.

Related termsEdit

koppie

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /kɔp/

NounEdit

kop (plural koppe, diminutive koppie)

head
mountain, summit, peak

DescendantsEdit

→ English: kop

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

From kopat, kopnout.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): [ˈkop]
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Hyphenation: kop

NounEdit

kop m inan

kick

DeclensionEdit

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	kop	kopy
genitive	kopu	kopů
dative	kopu	kopům
accusative	kop	kopy
vocative	kope	kopy
locative	kopu	kopech
instrumental	kopem	kopy

Derived termsEdit

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse koppr, from Middle Low German kop.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /kop/, [kʰʌb̥]

NounEdit

kop c (singular definite koppen, plural indefinite kopper)

A cup; A concave vessel for holding liquid, generally adorned with either a handle or a stem (confer goblet, glass.)
... kop.
Pour the wine into the cup.

InflectionEdit

Declension of kop

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	kop	koppen	kopper	kopperne
genitive	kops	koppens	koppers	koppernes

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /kɔp/
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Hyphenation: kop
Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.

NounEdit

kop m (plural koppen, diminutive kopje n)

cup (for drinking)
Nog een kopje thee?
(Do you want) another cup of tea?

Synonyms: mok, tas
(for animals, colloquial and derogatory for humans) head
Buldogs hebben een angstaanjagende kop.
Bulldogs have a scary head.

Hou je kop!
Shut your hole!

Synonym: hoofd
(colloquial, by extension) a (male) human
Wat een kwaaie kop!
What an angry guy!
head of a nail, pin etc.
Je slaat de spijker op de kop.
You hit the nail on the head.
front, lead, e.g. in a race; charge, control.
De underdog ligt op kop.
The underdog is in the lead.
heading (of a text), headline
heads (side of a coin)
Synonym: kruis

Antonym: munt
pegbox (part of a stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs)
one head's height
Hij is een kop groter dan ik.
He is a head taller than me.

Usage notesEdit

It is considered impolite to refer to someone's head with kop. That word normally only refers to the head of animals, although for horses, which are considered noble animals, hoofd is generally used.