lāpa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "lapa"

Latvian

Etymology

Maybe from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”) and so cognate with Old Norse leiptr (“lightning”), Lithuanian liepsnà (“flame”), Ancient Greek λάμπω (lámpō, “to shine”), Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Latin limpidus (“bright”).

Noun

lāpa f (4th declension)

Declension

Declension of lāpa (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	lāpa	lāpas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	lāpu	lāpas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	lāpas	lāpu
dative (datīvs)	lāpai	lāpām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	lāpu	lāpām
locative (lokatīvs)	lāpā	lāpās
vocative (vokatīvs)	lāpa	lāpas

Verb

lāpa

third-person singular/plural present indicative of lāpīt
(with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of lāpīt
(with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of lāpīt

Pali

Alternative forms

𑀮𑀸𑀧 (Brahmi script)
लाप (Devanagari script)
লাপ (Bengali script)
ලාප (Sinhalese script)
လာပ or လႃပ (Burmese script)
ลาป or ลาปะ (Thai script)
ᩃᩣᨷ (Tai Tham script)
ລາປ or ລາປະ (Lao script)
លាប (Khmer script)
𑄣𑄂𑄛 (Chakma script)

Etymology

The connection between 'talk' and 'quail' is that quails seem to talk a lot. The form corresponding to Sanskrit लाब (lāba, “quail”) would have merged with *lāpa (“talker”) in some eastern dialects.

Noun

lāpa m

talk
(bird) quail

Declension

Declension table of "lāpa" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	lāpo	lāpā
Accusative (second)	lāpaṃ	lāpe
Instrumental (third)	lāpena	lāpehi or lāpebhi
Dative (fourth)	lāpassa or lāpāya or lāpatthaṃ	lāpānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	lāpasmā or lāpamhā or lāpā	lāpehi or lāpebhi
Genitive (sixth)	lāpassa	lāpānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	lāpasmiṃ or lāpamhi or lāpe	lāpesu
Vocative (calling)	lāpa	lāpā

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “lāpa”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead