sap

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See also sáp, sắp, s.ap., sæp, and SAP

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Etymology 1 [edit]

From Old English sæp, from Proto-Germanic *sapōn (cf. East Frisian/Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, Proto-Indo-European *sap- (cf. Welsh sybwydd 'fir', Latin sapa (must, new wine), Russian сопли (sópli, snivel), Armenian համ (ham, juice, taste), Avestan višāpa 'having poisonous juices', Sanskrit sabar 'juice, nectar'), from *sap 'to taste'. More at sage.

Noun [edit]

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Wikipedia sap (countable and uncountable; plural saps)

  1. (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
  2. (uncountable) The sap-wood, or alburnum, of a tree.
  3. (slang, countable) A simpleton; a saphead; a milksop; a naive person.
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Probably from sapling.

Noun [edit]

sap (plural saps)

  1. (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
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Verb [edit]

sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

  1. (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
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Etymology 3 [edit]

From French saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from sape (sort of scythe), from Late Latin sappa (sort of mattock).

Noun [edit]

sap (plural saps)

  1. (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
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sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)

  1. (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
    • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden
      Nor safe their dwellings were, for sapped by floods, / Their houses fell upon their household gods.
  2. (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
  3. To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
  4. (transitive) To gradually weaken.
    • to sap one’s conscience
  5. (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps — 12
    • (Can we date this quote?) The Tatler
      Both assaults carried on by sapping.
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Catalan [edit]

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Verb [edit]

sap

  1. Third-person singular present indicative form of saber.

Dutch [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Middle Dutch sap. Cognate to English sap and German Saft (from Old High German saf).[1]

Noun [edit]

sap n (plural sappen, diminutive sapje)

  1. sap (fluid in plants)
  2. juice

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References [edit]

  1. ^ J. de Vries & F. de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, 1986 (14de druk)

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Lojban [edit]

Rafsi [edit]

sap

  1. rafsi of sampu.

Romani [edit]

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Noun [edit]

sap m

  1. snake

Turkish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Turkic sap, from Proto-Turkic.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈsɑp/

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sap

  1. shaft

Volapük [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /sɑːp/

Etymology [edit]

Latin sapiō, "I am wise."

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sap

  1. wisdom