жап

• IPA^(key): /ʒɑp/
• Rhymes: -ɑp
• Hyphenation: жап

жап • (žap)

1. time (inevitable progression into the future; duration of that progression)

   жап эрта — time is passing

   мыйын яра жапем уке — I don't have any free time

   жап - окса — time (is) money

   жап гыч жапышке — from time to time

   жапын' шуйнымыжо — duration (lit. length of time)

2. moment (a specific point of duration)

   йӧнан жап — favorable moment

   толмо жап — arrival time

3. time, hour (specific measurement identifying a moment)

   Москосо жап почеш — (in) Moscow time

   жап формат — time format

4. time, period, season, era (a certain duration seen as a whole)

   кеҥеж жап — summertime

   паша жап — work time

   самырык жап — youth (lit. young time)

   тунемме жап — study years (lit. time)

5. deadline (moment before which a task must be finished)

   жап шуын — the deadline came

6. clock, watch (instrument for measuring durations)

   жапым ончалаш — to look at a watch, clock

7. (grammar) tense (forms of words that indicate when a certain action or state happens or exists)

   кызытсе жап — present tense

   шушаш жап — future tense

   эртыше жап — past tense

   жап категорий — category of tense

• V. M. Vasiljev, Z. V. Uchaev (2003) “жап”, in Марийско-Русский словарь, Yoshkar-Ola, →ISBN
• J. Bradley et al. (2023) “жап”, in The Mari Web Project: Mari-English Dictionary, University of Vienna