lapa

From Sotho lelapa.

lapa (plural lapas)

1. (South Africa) An open structure in South Africa, typically a thatched roof supported by wooden poles.

From Chinese 喇叭 (lǎba).

lapa (plural lapas)

1. (music) A metal wind instrument of 19th-century China, resembling the oboe.

• Pala, alap, pa'al, pala

Borrowed from Sotho lelapa.

lapa (plural lapas, diminutive lapatjie)

1. A lapa.
2. A courtyard around a house or village.

• Hyphenation: la‧pa
• IPA^(key): /laˈpaʔ/

lapâ (intensified lapaon)

1. rotten, decayed, decomposed

   Synonym: lado

2. (figurative) useless, incapable

   Synonym: inutil

3. (figurative) low-quality, inferior

   Synonym: maluya

lapa (lontara ᨒᨄ)

1. lava

From Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪apaʔ/
• Hyphenation: la‧pa

lapa

1. (arithmetic, division) quotient; the result of division.

Elementary Arithmetic:

lapa

1. to cut into sizable chunks or portions.
2. to mutilate; hack to pieces.

   Synonyms: guhay, pingkol

From Proto-Finnic *lapa, from Proto-Uralic *lapa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑpɑ/, [ˈlɑpɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧pa

lapa

1. blade (of an oar or propeller, etc)
2. (anatomy) shoulder of a horse or other animal
3. shoulder of a human, as the region around the shoulder blade
4. (botany) blade, lamina
5. headstock, peghead (on a musical instrument, such as a guitar)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑpɑˣ/, [ˈlɑpɑ(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Syllabification^(key): la‧pa

lapa

1. present active indicative connegative of lappaa
2. second-person singular present imperative of lappaa
3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative of lappaa

• pala

• IPA^(key): /la.pa/

• Audio

  (file)

• Homophones: lapas, lapât

lapa

1. third-person singular past historic of laper

• IPA^(key): [ˈlapɐ]

Obscure. Probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia *lappa; less likely from Proto-Germanic *lappô: "rag", then "border", then, hypothetically, "shelter".[1]

menhir known as lapa de Gargantáns, Galicia

• lapia

lapa f (plural lapas)

1. grotto, cave; shelter
2. standing stone

• Lapa
• Lapela

• lapela (“lapel”)

Obscure.[2]

lapa f (plural lapas)

1. (mollusc) limpet
2. (figurative) Someone dependent; someone disregarding or ignorant of another's personal space

• patela

Perhaps from lapar (“to lap, lick with the tonge”).

lapa f (plural lapas)

1. flame

• lápara
• laparada
• laparear

• “lapa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “lapa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “lapa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “lapa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪ˠapˠə/

lapa m (genitive singular lapa, nominative plural lapaí)

1. paw
2. flipper
3. webbed foot
4. double cable-stitch

• mág

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

lapa f (4th declension)

1. leaf

   lapas plātne ― leaf blade

   koku lapas ― tree leaves

   lapu koks ― leafy tree, deciduous tree

   lapu dārzeņi ― leafy vegetables (cabbage, spinach, etc.)

2. sheet of paper, especially in a book

   papīras lapa ― sheet of paper

   aptaujas lapa ― survey sheet

   grāmatas lapa ― book page

   lapas puse, lappuse ― half sheet (= page)

3. (Internet) web page

   vikipēdijas sākumlapa ― the (Latvian) Wikipedia home page

• lappuse
• sākumlapa

From Proto-Austronesian *lapaq.

lapa

1. to cut up (a carcass), to butcher

Borrowed from English wrapper.

• IPA^(key): /làpā/, [là.pā]

làpā

1. (cloth) wrapper (for something)

• Lena Björkestedt, A Phonological Sketch of the Mmen Language (2010)

• apa

• IPA^(key): /ˈlapə/
• Hyphenation: là‧pa

lapa f (plural lape)

1. bee

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaʀ, compare Malay lapar.

lapa

1. hungry

Unknown. Possibly of Pre-Celtic origin.

• Homophone: Lapa
• Rhymes: -apɐ
• Hyphenation: la‧pa

lapa f (plural lapas)

1. grotto; cave, especially one used as shelter

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:caverna

2. limpet (a small mollusc)

• (limpet): gastrópode, molusco

• Lapa (name of several cities)

• lapedo

From the proclisis of the definite article la + Vulgar Latin *apa, from Latin apis. Compare Sicilian loppiu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlapa/
• Hyphenation: là‧pa

lapa f (plural lapi)

1. bee.
2. A Piaggio Ape.

• → Italian: lapa

Borrowed from English rubber.

lapa

1. rubber

From Proto-Bantu *-dàmba.

lapa

1. to be hungry

• IPA^(key): /ˈlapa/ [ˈla.pa]
• Rhymes: -apa
• Syllabification: la‧pa

lapa f (plural lapas)

1. limpet
2. (figurative) limpet, person who sticks to another
3. (Venezuela) lowland paca

• bomba lapa

• “lapa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Inherited from Old Swedish lapa, from Proto-Germanic *lappōną, from Proto-Indo-European *leb-. Doublet of läppja.

• IPA^(key): /²lɑːpa/

lapa (present lapar, preterite lapade, supine lapat, imperative lapa)

1. to lap (to slurp up a liquid)

• lapa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• lapa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• lapa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• lapa in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaq, from Proto-Austronesian *lapaq (“to cut up, butcher, slaughter an animal”). Compare Bikol Central lapa, Cebuano lapa, Malay lapah, Mansaka lapa, Minangkabau lapah, and Western Bukidnon Manobo lapa'.

• Hyphenation: la‧pa
• IPA^(key): /ˈlapaʔ/, [ˈla.pɐʔ] (noun)
• IPA^(key): /laˈpaʔ/, [lɐˈpaʔ] (adjective)

lapà (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜉ)

1. butchering; slaughtering; quartering (of animals)

   Synonyms: katay, pagkatay, hiwag

2. cutting of meat into big lumps or pieces

   Synonyms: atado, pag-aatado

3. big lump or cut of meat

   Synonyms: katay, lapang

4. autopsy; necropsy

   Synonyms: awtopsiya, pag-aawtopsiya

lapâ

1. butchered; killed (of animals)

   Synonyms: katay, kinatay

From Proto-Finnic *lapa.

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑpɑ/, [ˈɫɑpɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑpɑ
• Hyphenation: la‧pa

lapa

1. a wide part at the end of something; foot (on a leg), blade (on an oar), etc.

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “lapa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn