hap
English
Pronunciation
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Audio (AU): (file) - Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), from Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”). Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).
The verb is from Middle English happen, from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).
Noun
hap (plural haps)
- (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
- 2018, "Something Fishy", Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series
- Katie Griffin as Samantha Sparks: "Hey, Flint. I heard your extended (gasp) earlier. What's the haps?"
- Mark Edwards as Flint Lockwood: "The haps is -- you're not going to believe this, but dad asked me to make him an invention!"
- 2018, "Something Fishy", Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: The Series
- (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
- 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 23, column 1:
- Each day ſtill better others happineſſe,
Vntill the heauens enuying earths good hap,
Adde an immortall title to your Crowne.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1
- URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
- HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
- Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:
- [I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot […]
- Edmund Spenser
- whether art it was or heedless hap
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build / Their hopes on haps.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
- He at once resolved to accompany me to that island, ship aboard the same vessel, get into the same watch, the same boat, the same mess with me, in short to share my every hap; with both my hands in his, boldly dip into the Potluck of both worlds.
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See also
Verb
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- (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.
- Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire; see also Thesaurus:happen
- 1868-9, Robert Browning, “The Ring and the Book”, in Edward Berdoe, editor, The poetical works of Robert Browning, published 1889, page 17:
- "But laudably, since thus it happed!" quoth one: Whereat, more witness and the case postponed. "Thus it happed not, since thus he did the deed,....
- (transitive, literary) To happen to.
- 1891, Elizabeth Stoddard, “No Answer”, in Harper's magazine, page 55:
- What meaneth June, to hap us every year.
Etymology 2
From Old English hap.
Noun
hap (plural haps)
- (UK, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
Verb
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- (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
- Dr. J. Brown
- The surgeon happed her up carefully.
- 1899, “Bartonshill Coal Co. v. Beid, 1 Pat. Sc. App. 792, 793.”, in Robert Campbell, editor, Ruling cases, volume 19:
- The practice was, before firing a shot for the purpose of blasting, to give an order to hap the crane, that is, to cover it, in order to protect it from the effect of the shot.
- Dr. J. Brown
Etymology 3
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Noun
hap (plural haps)
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Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *skapa, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, split, dig”). Compare English shape, German schaffen (“make, create”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”). Compare Low German apen, Icelandic opna, Norwegian åpne (“to open”), English open.
Verb
hap (aorist hapa, participle hapur)
- I open
Conjugation
Show compound tenses:
participle | hapur | ||||||
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gerund | duke hapur | ||||||
infinitive | për të hapur | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
1st pers. | 2nd pers. | 3rd pers. | 1st pers. | 2nd pers. | 3rd pers. | ||
indicative | present | hap | hap | hap | hapim | hapni | hapin |
imperfect | hapja | hapje | hapte | hapnim | hapnit | hapnin | |
aorist | hapa | hape | hapi | hapëm | hapët | hapën | |
perfect | kam hapur | ke hapur | ka hapur | kemi hapur | keni hapur | kanë hapur | |
past perfect | kisha hapur | kishe hapur | kishte hapur | kishim hapur | kishit hapur | kishin hapur | |
aorist II | pata hapur | pate hapur | pati hapur | patëm hapur | patët hapur | patën hapur | |
future1 | do të hap | do të hapësh | do të hapë | do të hapim | do të hapni | do të hapin | |
future perfect2 | do të kem hapur | do të kesh hapur | do të ketë hapur | do të kemi hapur | do të keni hapur | do të kenë hapur | |
subjunctive | present | të hap | të hapësh | të hapë | të hapim | të hapni | të hapin |
imperfect | të hapja | të hapje | të hapte | të hapnim | të hapnit | të hapnin | |
perfect | të kem hapur | të kesh hapur | të ketë hapur | të kemi hapur | të keni hapur | të kenë hapur | |
past perfect | të kisha hapur | të kishe hapur | të kishte hapur | të kishim hapur | të kishit hapur | të kishin hapur | |
conditional1, 2 | imperfect | do të hapja | do të hapje | do të hapte | do të hapnim | do të hapnit | do të hapnin |
past perfect | do të kisha hapur | do të kishe hapur | do të kishte hapur | do të kishim hapur | do të kishit hapur | do të kishin hapur | |
optative | present | hapsha | hapsh | haptë | hapshim | hapshit | hapshin |
perfect | paça hapur | paç hapur | pastë hapur | paçim hapur | paçit hapur | paçin hapur | |
admirative | present | hapkam | hapke | hapka | hapkemi | hapkeni | hapkan |
imperfect | hapkësha | hapkëshe | hapkësh | hapkëshim | hapkëshit | hapkëshin | |
perfect | paskam hapur | paske hapur | paska hapur | paskemi hapur | paskeni hapur | paskan hapur | |
past perfect | paskësha hapur | paskëshe hapur | paskësh hapur | paskëshim hapur | paskëshit hapur | paskëshin hapur | |
imperative | present | — | hap | — | — | hapni | — |
1) indicative future identical with conditional present 2) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect |
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
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Noun
hap m (plural happen, diminutive hapje n)
- (often diminutive) bite
- De hond nam er een hap van.
- The dog took a bite of it.
- chunk
- (often diminutive) snack, light meal
- Ik heb wel trek in een warme hap.
- I would certainly like a warm meal.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
hap
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of happen
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of happen
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
hap m (genitive singular hap, nominative plural hapanna)
Declension
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Forms with the definite article
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “hap”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “hap”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Seri
Pronunciation
Noun
hap (plural hap)
Synonyms
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References
- Moser, Mary B., Marlett, Stephen A. (2010) Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricaana iitom [Seri-Spanish-English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Hermosillo: Plaza y Valdés Editores, →ISBN, page 334.
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Noun
hap
Adverb
hap
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Turkish
Etymology
From Arabic حَبّ (ḥabb, “grains, seeds, pills”).
Noun
hap (definite accusative habı, plural haplar)
Declension
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | hap | |
Definite accusative | hapı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | hap | haplar |
Definite accusative | hapı | hapları |
Dative | hapa | haplara |
Locative | hapta | haplarda |
Ablative | haptan | haplardan |
Genitive | hapın | hapların |
Descendants
- Greek: χάπι (chápi, “pill”)
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