лапа

Budukh

Etymology

Akin to Lezgi лепе (lepe).

Noun

лапа • (lapa)

1. a wave

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Bulgarian

Меча лапа

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, possibly borrowed from Russian (omitted in Gerov's dictionary).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

Noun

ла́па • (lápa) f (diminutive ла́пичка)

1. paw (lower end of animal's limbs)

   попа́дам в ла́пите ― popádam v lápite ― to fall under control (literally, “to fall into the paws [of someone]”)

   изтръ́гвам ня́кого от ла́пите ― iztrǎ́gvam njákogo ot lápite ― to emancipate someone from [someone else's] control/hold (literally, “to wrest someone from [someone else's] paws”)

2. (figurative, colloquial) rough, big human's hand

Declension

Declension of ла́па

	singular	plural
indefinite	ла́па lápa	ла́пи lápi
definite	ла́пата lápata	ла́пите lápite

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

• IPA^(key): [ɫɐˈpa]

Noun

лапа́ • (lapá) f

1. (dialectal, dated, often only in plural) old-fashioned cataplasm (usually made of flour or barn mixed with water)

   Synonym: лече́бна ка́ша (lečébna káša)

Declension

Declension of лапа́

	singular	plural
indefinite	лапа́ lapá	лапи́ lapí
definite	лапа́та lapáta	лапи́те lapíte

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]‎^[1] (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

• IPA^(key): [ɫɐˈpa]

Noun

лапа́ • (lapá) f

1. (obsolete) sleet, slush (mixture of rain, snow, and/or hail)

   Synonyms: ки́ша (kíša), сугра́шица (sugrášica), мо́кър сняг (mókǎr snjag)

Declension

Declension of лапа́

	singular	plural
indefinite	лапа́ lapá	лапи́ lapí
definite	лапа́та lapáta	лапи́те lapíte

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

From Proto-Slavic *olpati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

Verb

ла́па • (lápa)

1. third-person singular present indicative of ла́пам (lápam)

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Macedonian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapa]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *olpati.

Verb

лапа • (lapa) third-singular present, impf (perfective лапне)

1. (transitive) to eat gluttonously, gobble
2. (transitive) to place in one's mouth
3. (transitive) to make out with

Conjugation

Conjugation of лапа (imperfective, present in -а)

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

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *lapa. Cognate with Russian ла́па (lápa), Polish łapa.

Noun

лапа • (lapa) f

1. paw

Etymology 3

Possibly from Ottoman Turkish [Term?]. Cognate with Turkish lapa, Greek λαπάς (lapás).

Noun

лапа • (lapa) f

1. a type of dish made with rice and poppy

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Russian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapə]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пы, nominative plural ла́пы, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)

1. paw
2. (colloquial) human's hand or foot

Declension

Declension of ла́па (inan fem-form hard-stem accent-a) 

	singular	plural
nominative	ла́па lápa	ла́пы lápy
genitive	ла́пы lápy	ла́п láp
dative	ла́пе lápe	ла́пам lápam
accusative	ла́пу lápu	ла́пы lápy
instrumental	ла́пой, ла́пою lápoj, lápoju	ла́пами lápami
prepositional	ла́пе lápe	ла́пах lápax

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Ukrainian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пи, nominative plural ла́пи, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́почка)

1. paw

Declension

Declension of ла́па (inan hard fem-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	ла́па lápa	ла́пи lápy
genitive	ла́пи lápy	лап lap
dative	ла́пі lápi	ла́пам lápam
accusative	ла́пу lápu	ла́пи lápy
instrumental	ла́пою lápoju	ла́пами lápamy
locative	ла́пі lápi	ла́пах lápax
vocative	ла́по lápo	ла́пи lápy