лапа
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "lapa"
Etymology
Akin to Lezgi лепе (lepe). ultimately from persian Persian لبه.
Noun
лапа • (lapa)
- a wave
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *lapa, possibly borrowed from Russian (omitted in Gerov's dictionary).
Pronunciation
Noun
ла́па • (lápa) f (diminutive ла́пичка)
- paw (lower end of animal's limbs)
- (figurative, colloquial) rough, big human's hand
Declension
Declension of ла́па
Derived terms
- ла́пица (lápica, “animal's lower limb”)
- ла́пест (lápest), ла́пав (lápav, “with large paws”)
Related terms
- лапа́вец (lapávec, “type of flat sweetwater fish”) (dialectal, regional)
References
- “ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “ла́па”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاپا (“lapa”). Also loaned into Greek λαπα̃ς (lapãs), dialectal Albanian lapë, Romanian lapă, Aromanian lapa with similar meanings.
Pronunciation
Noun
лапа́ • (lapá) f
- (dialectal, dated, often only in plural) old-fashioned cataplasm (usually made of flour or barn mixed with water)
Declension
Declension of лапа́
References
- “лапа́”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
- “лапи́”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лапа́¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309
- Nayden Gerov (1899) “*лапа́”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 5
Etymology 3
From Proto-Slavic *xlapa (“slush, sleet”) with colloquial elision of initial #x-, cognate with Polish chlapa. Perhaps related to Lithuanian šlãpias (“wet”), šlãpė (“damp place or land”).
Pronunciation
Noun
лапа́ • (lapá) f
- (obsolete) sleet, slush (mixture of rain, snow, and/or hail)
- Synonyms: ки́ша (kíša), сугра́шица (sugrášica), мо́кър сняг (mókǎr snjag)
Declension
Declension of лапа́
Derived terms
- лапа́вина (lapávina, “melted snow, slush”) (dialectal)
- лапа́вица (lapávica, “bad weather with sleet”) (dialectal)
References
- Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лапа́²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309
Etymology 4
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
Verb
ла́па • (lápa)
- third-person singular present indicative of ла́пам (lápam)
Anagrams
- пала (pala)
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olpati.
Verb
лапа • (lapa) third-singular present, impf (perfective лапне)
- (transitive) to eat gluttonously, gobble
- (transitive) to place in one's mouth
- (transitive) to make out with
Conjugation
| l-participles | imperfect | aorist | non-finite forms | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | лапал | — | adjectival participle | лапан | ||
| feminine | лапала | — | adverbial participle | лапајќи | ||
| neuter | лапало | — | verbal noun | лапање | ||
| plural | лапале | — | perfect participle | лапано | ||
| present | imperfect | aorist | imperative | |||
| 1st singular | лапам | лапав | — | — | ||
| 2nd singular | лапаш | лапаше | — | лапај | ||
| 3rd singular | лапа | лапаше | — | — | ||
| 1st plural | лапаме | лапавме | — | — | ||
| 2nd plural | лапате | лапавте | — | лапајте | ||
| 3rd plural | лапаат | лапаа | — | — | ||
| Compound tenses | ||||||
| perfect | сум лапал | present of сум (except in the 3rd person) + imperfect l-participle | ||||
| има-perfect | имам лапано | present of има + perfect participle | ||||
| pluperfect | бев лапал | imperfect of сум + imperfect l-participle | ||||
| има-pluperfect | имав лапано | imperfect of има + perfect participle | ||||
| има-perfect reported | сум имал лапано | perfect of има + perfect participle | ||||
| future | ќе лапам | ќе + present | ||||
| има-future | ќе имам лапано | future of има + perfect participle | ||||
| future in the past | ќе лапав | ќе + imperfect | ||||
| има-future in the past | ќе имав лапано | future in the past of има + perfect participle | ||||
| future reported | ќе сум лапал | ќе + imperfect l-participle | ||||
| има-future reported | ќе сум имал лапано | future reported of има + perfect participle | ||||
| conditional | би лапал | би + imperfect l-participle | ||||
| има-conditional | би имал лапано | conditional of има + perfect participle | ||||
Conjugation of лапа (imperfective, present in -а)
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa. Cognate with Russian ла́па (lápa), Polish łapa.
Noun
лапа • (lapa) f
Etymology 3
Possibly from Ottoman Turkish [Term?]. Cognate with Turkish lapa, Greek λαπάς (lapás).
Noun
лапа • (lapa) f
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пы, nominative plural ла́пы, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)
- paw
- 1925, Сергей Есенин [Sergei Yesenin], Собаке Качалова; English translation from Peter Tempest, transl., To Kachalov's Dog, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982:
- Дай, Джим, на сча́стье ла́пу мне,
Таку́ю ла́пу не вида́л я сро́ду.
Дава́й с тобо́й пола́ем при луне́
На ти́хую, бесшу́мную пого́ду.
Дай, Джим, на сча́стье ла́пу мне.- Daj, Džim, na sčástʹje lápu mne,
Takúju lápu ne vidál ja sródu.
Daváj s tobój polájem pri luné
Na tíxuju, besšúmnuju pogódu.
Daj, Džim, na sčástʹje lápu mne. - Соmе, Jim, give mе your paw for luck,
I swear I've neveг seen one like it.
Let's go, the two of us, and bark
Up at the mооn when Nature's silent.
Соmе, Jim, give me your paw fог luck.
- Daj, Džim, na sčástʹje lápu mne,
- (colloquial) human's hand or foot
Declension
Descendants
- → Ingrian: laappa
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пи, nominative plural ла́пи, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)
Declension
Declension of ла́па (inan hard fem-form accent-a)
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