lop

See also: Lop, løp, löp, lốp, and lớp

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɒp/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒp
  • (file)

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
    • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
      Why, we take,
      From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. [], 2nd edition, London: [] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock [], and J[onathan] Robinson [], published 1708, →OCLC:
      I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow

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References

Etymology 2

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

lop (plural lops)

  1. (Geordie) A flea.
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
    • 1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems:
      Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
Derived terms

References

  • Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • lop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
  • 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,
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977

Etymology 3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
    • 1935, Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, page 5:
      "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

A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap.

Verb

lop

  1. to count

References

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lupus.

Noun

lop m (plural lops) (ORB)

  1. wolf

References

  • loup in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • lop in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlop]
  • Rhymes: -op

Verb

lop

  1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)
    Másoktól lop ötleteket.He/she steals ideas from others.
    Synonyms: (slang) csór, lenyúl, meglovasít, megfúj, (literary) oroz, (formal) eltulajdonít, (euphemistic, informal) elemel
    Perfective: ellop

Conjugation

Derived terms

Compound words

(With verbal prefixes):

  • belop
  • belelop
  • ellop
  • hozzálop
  • kilop
  • lelop
  • meglop
  • összelop
  • visszalop

Descendants

  • Serbo-Croatian: lopov
  • Slovene: lópov

See also

References

  1. lop in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Indonesian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Middle English

Noun

lop

  1. Alternative form of loppe (spider)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlup]
  • (file)

Noun

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

  1. wolf

Derived terms

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

  1. end
  2. (often in the plural) the rest
  3. (grammar) ending

Declension

Inflection of lop (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing. lop
genitive sing. lopun
partitive sing. lopud
partitive plur. lopuid
singular plural
nominative lop lopud
accusative lopun lopud
genitive lopun lopuiden
partitive lopud lopuid
essive-instructive lopun lopuin
translative lopuks lopuikš
inessive lopus lopuiš
elative lopuspäi lopuišpäi
illative lopuhu lopuihe
adessive lopul lopuil
ablative lopulpäi lopuilpäi
allative lopule lopuile
abessive loputa lopuita
comitative lopunke lopuidenke
prolative lopudme lopuidme
approximative I lopunno lopuidenno
approximative II lopunnoks lopuidennoks
egressive lopunnopäi lopuidennopäi
terminative I lopuhusai lopuihesai
terminative II lopulesai lopuilesai
terminative III lopussai
additive I lopuhupäi lopuihepäi
additive II lopulepäi lopuilepäi

Volapük

Noun

lop (nominative plural lops)

  1. opera

Declension

Derived terms

  • lopöp
  • lopül
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