lop

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See also: Lop, løp, löp, lốp, and lớp

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /lɒp/
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  • Rhymes: -ɒp
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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

Verb[edit]

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

  1. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
  2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  3. To allow to hang down.
    to lop the head
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Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

lop (plural lops)

  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  • “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

Noun[edit]

lop (plural lops)

  1. (Tyneside) A flea.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Cleveland to this entry?)
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

References[edit]

  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2021.
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Etymology 3[edit]

Back-formation from lopsided.

An English Lop rabbit

Noun[edit]

lop (plural lops)

  1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
    • 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5
      "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
  2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

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Anagrams[edit]

A-Pucikwar[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap

Verb[edit]

lop

  1. to count

References[edit]

Franco-Provençal[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

Noun[edit]

lop m (plural lops)

  1. wolf

Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

lop

  1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)
    Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.

Conjugation[edit]

conjugation of lop
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. lopok lopsz lop lopunk loptok lopnak
Def. lopom lopod lopja lopjuk lopjátok lopják
2nd-p. o. loplak ―
Past Indef. loptam loptál lopott loptunk loptatok loptak
Def. loptam loptad lopta loptuk loptátok lopták
2nd-p. o. loptalak ―
Condi­tional
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. lopnék lopnál lopna lopnánk lopnátok lopnának
Def. lopnám lopnád lopná lopnánk lopnátok lopnák
2nd-p. o. lopnálak ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. lopjak lopj or
lopjál 		lopjon lopjunk lopjatok lopjanak
Def. lopjam lopd or
lopjad 		lopja lopjuk lopjátok lopják
2nd-p. o. lopjalak ―
Infinitive lopni lopnom lopnod lopnia lopnunk lopnotok lopniuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms 		Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
lopás lopó lopott lopandó lopva lophat

Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

Descendants[edit]

  • Serbo-Croatian: lopov

References[edit]

  1. ^ Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *lōp.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɔp̚]
  • Hyphenation: lop

Noun[edit]

lop (plural lop-lop, first-person possessive lopku, second-person possessive lopmu, third-person possessive lopnya)

  1. barrel (of a firearm)
    Synonym: laras

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

lop

  1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

  1. wolf

Derived terms[edit]

Veps[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun[edit]

lop

  1. end

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

lop (nominative plural lops)

  1. opera

Declension[edit]

declension of lop
singular plural
nominative lop lops
genitive lopa lopas
dative lope lopes
accusative lopi lopis
vocative 1 o lop! o lops!
predicative 2 lopu lopus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms[edit]

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