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jap

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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Jaruára with p as a placeholder.

Symbol

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jap

  1. (international standards, obsolete) Former ISO 639-3 language code for Jaruára.

English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology 1

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Shortening of Japanese, in reference to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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jap (third-person singular simple present japs, present participle japping, simple past and past participle japped)

  1. (Canada, US, ethnic slur, slang, transitive) To carry out a sneak attack upon (something or somebody).

Etymology 2

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From or related to Scots jaup, jap (of liquid: dash, splash).

Verb

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jap (third-person singular simple present japs, present participle japping, simple past and past participle japped)

  1. (Scotland, Northern Ireland, transitive) (of a liquid) To spatter or splash over a surface.
    • 1947, The Bell, volume 15, page 38:
      [] the yelp of the girl as the hot water japped her legs. I The big fellow bore me across the kitchen.
    • 2012, Tom Paulin, Love's Bonfire:
      The oilcloth on the kitchen table / an olive green thing - retro surface / japped with little bits of water / or if you like with bits 'v watter / []

Etymology 3

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Noun

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jap (plural japs)

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    • 1936, Noel Streatfeild, Ballet Shoes:
      What about linings? See straight through you in organdie. You can wear the knickers of your practice-dresses, but you must have slips even if it’s only jap.

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Variant of dialectal ap, from Proto-Albanian *apa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁op-eio/e-, from *h₁ep- (to take).[1] The verb is suppletive with past dhashë and participle dhënë from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-.[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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jap (aorist dhashë, participle dhënë) (Tosk)

  1. to give

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008), Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. ^ Demiraj, Bardhyl (1997), Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: []] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎[1] (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 79

Antigua and Barbuda Creole English

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Noun

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jap (plural jap dem, quantified jap)

  1. drop
  2. an animal that gave birth

Verb

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jap (past min jap, future go jap, a go jap, wi jap, wil jap, completive dun jap, imperfective a jap)

  1. to drop

Cypriot Arabic

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Root
j-y-b
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Etymology

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From common dialectal Arabic جَابَ (jāba), from a univerbation of جَاءَ بِ (jāʔa bi-, literally to come with), equivalent to Cypriot Arabic ja +‎ b-. Cognate with Egyptian Arabic جاب (gāb, to bring), Moroccan Arabic جاب (jāb, to bring) and Maltese ġab (to bring).

Verb

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jap I (present pijíp)

  1. to bring

References

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  • Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 192

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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jap m (plural jappen, no diminutive)

  1. (official spelling) alternative letter-case form of Jap

German

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Interjection

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jap

  1. (colloquial) yep; yup; yop

Malay

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Etymology

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Clipping of sekejap or kejap.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒap/ [ˈd͡ʒap̚]
  • Rhymes: -ap

Adverb

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jap

  1. (colloquial) apheretic form of sekejap or kejap.

Interjection

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jap

  1. (colloquial) apheretic form of sekejap or kejap.

References

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  • Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA[2], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 29

Rayón Zoque

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Noun

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jap

  1. ash
  2. lime (calcium-containing material)

References

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  • Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984), Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 9

Romanian

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

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jap

  1. smack