See also: Nep, NEP, nép, nếp, and Nep.

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nep

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Nepali.

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Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (catnip).

Alternative forms edit

  • nip (dialectal)

Noun edit

nep (usually uncountable, plural neps)

  1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
    • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio, published 2007, page 201:
      Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

Etymology 2 edit

Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (top, knop, summit) and Old Norse knappr (knob), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (knob), from Proto-Indo-European *gnebʰ- (to press, tighten), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (button). Related to knob.

Noun edit

nep (plural neps)

  1. (UK, dialect) A knot in a fibre of cotton.

Verb edit

nep (third-person singular simple present neps, present participle nepping, simple past and past participle nepped)

  1. (UK, dialect, intransitive) Of cotton: to form knots.

Etymology 3 edit

Short for nepotist.

Noun edit

nep (plural neps)

  1. (US, slang, derogatory) One who engages in nepotism, usually to the one who benefits from it.

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Ainu edit

Etymology edit

From ne (interrogatory root) +‎ p (thing). See nekon, nen.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

nep (Kana spelling ネㇷ゚)

  1. (interrogative) what

Usage notes edit

Less common in spoken language than hemanta.

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Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From German Nepp. Originally Bargoens.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /nɛp/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: nep
  • Rhymes: -ɛp

Noun edit

nep m (uncountable)

  1. imitation, fake

Adjective edit

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)

  1. fake, not real
  2. artificial, not natural

Inflection edit

Some Dutch speakers may consider attributive use of this adjective informal. Thus, the inflected form neppe is not very commonly used in more formal language. In such language, the word is used more often in compounds formed by prefixing with nep-. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

Inflection of nep
uninflected nep
inflected neppe
comparative nepper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial nep nepper het nepst
het nepste
indefinite m./f. sing. neppe neppere nepste
n. sing. nep nepper nepste
plural neppe neppere nepste
definite neppe neppere nepste
partitive neps neppers

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Middle English edit

Noun edit

nep

  1. Alternative form of nap (drinking bowl)