flap

Etymology 1
From, , related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, , , from the verb (see below). Related also to English and.

Noun

 * 1) Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
 * 2)  A hinged leaf.
 * 3)  A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
 * 4) A side fin of a ray.
 * 5) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
 * 6)  A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
 * 7)  A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
 * 8)  A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
 * 9)  The labia, the vulva.
 * 10)  A blow or slap (especially to the face).
 * 11) * 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
 * Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
 * 1) * a1500 The Prose Merlinː
 * The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
 * 1)  A young prostitute.
 * 1)  A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.
 * 2)  A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.
 * 3)  A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
 * 4)  The labia, the vulva.
 * 5)  A blow or slap (especially to the face).
 * 6) * 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
 * Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
 * 1) * a1500 The Prose Merlinː
 * The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
 * 1)  A young prostitute.
 * 1) * 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
 * Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
 * 1) * a1500 The Prose Merlinː
 * The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.
 * 1)  A young prostitute.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: pant
 * Bashkir: итәк
 * Bulgarian: капак на джоб
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * German:, ,
 * Latin: lacinia
 * Maori: tīrepa
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Vietnamese:, vạt áo


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: откидна́я доска́, откидна́я доска́


 * Finnish: ,
 * Maori: hopehope


 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Maori:
 * Russian:


 * Bashkir: (ҡанат) ҡағыу
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: siivenisku
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Macedonian: ма́втање
 * Old English: ġeswing
 * Russian:


 * Bulgarian: задкрилка, елерон
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: volet de bord de fuite
 * German: Bremsklappe,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: μονοπαλλόμενο
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Polish: spółgłoska uderzeniowa
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian:


 * Finnish:
 * German:, Hautlappen,
 * Greek:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:


 * French: ,
 * German:

Etymology 2
From, related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Probably ultimately.

Verb





 * 1)  To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
 * 2)  To move loosely back and forth.
 * 3)  To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
 * 4)  To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
 * 5)  To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
 * 1)  To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
 * 2)  To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
 * 3)  To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
 * 1)  To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
 * 2)  To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: läpyttää,, räpyttää
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Macedonian: ма́вта
 * Maori: aroarowhaki, tīrepa, tīreparepa
 * Old English: swingan
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: маха́ти, помаха́ти


 * Arabic:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Maori: kopekope,, tīreparepa, hāngengangenga
 * Old English: swingan
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:

Etymology
From, probably ultimately.

Noun

 * 1)  something flexible that is loose
 * 2)  banknote

Noun

 * 1) blow, hit