suppen

See also: Suppen

Danish

Noun

suppen c

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of suppe

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzʊpən/, [ˈzʊ.pən], [ˈzʊ.pm̩]
• Hyphenation: sup‧pen
• Rhymes: -ʊpən

Etymology 1

Related with Middle Low German besubben (“to soil, sully, bedabble”), dialectal Swedish subba (“to soil”), perhaps also sabbern (“to dribble, slaver”). Further possibly onomatopoeic, but also comparable with the root of Saft, English sap, or that of Sieb, Seife, English sieve, soap, seep. With regard to the latter, compare especially Dutch sijpelen (“to trickle, seep, drip”) and similar verbs in Low German dialects. If not original relation, at least semantic interference between these stems seems very likely.

Verb

1. (regional, intransitive) to trickle; to drip; to ooze; to leak; to seep; to soak

   Synonyms: schwappen, rinnen, sickern, triefen, tropfen

   Die Soße suppt durch den Teig. ― The sauce is seeping through the dough.

   Sekret suppt aus der Wunde. ― Secretion oozes out of the wound.

   • 1966, Eberhard Wolfgang Möller, Die feindlichen Schwestern, Berg: Hohenstaufen Verlag, published 1983, →ISBN, page 253:

     Nur das Wasser gurgelte und suppte unter unseren Füßen; das kam von den Blasen, die aus dem Morast aufstiegen, es war das einzige Geräusch, das noch zu hören war.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• durchsuppen

Etymology 2

Denominal from Suppe (“soup”)

Verb

1. (regional, transitive, intransitive) to intake soup
2. (regional, transitive) to intake in a fashion in which soup is usually eaten

Further reading

• “suppen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “suppen” in Duden online

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• suppa

Noun

suppen m or f

1. definite masculine singular of suppe