lap

Etymology 1
From, from , from , of origin, possibly. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
 * 2) An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
 * 3) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
 * 4)  A place of rearing and fostering.
 * 5) The upper legs of a seated person.
 * 6)  The female pudenda.
 * 7)  A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
 * 1)  A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Ingrian: helma
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: lem
 * Spanish:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: colo, regazo
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κόλπος
 * Gujarati: ખોળો
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Latin: gremium
 * Malay: riba
 * Occitan: fauda, falda
 * Polish: podołek
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:


 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: কোলা
 * Bikol Central: kulkulan
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: skød
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: sino
 * Faroese: fang, skeyt,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: colo
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skaut
 * Irish: ucht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kabuverdianu: ragás
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کۆش
 * Latin: gremium
 * Latvian: klēpis, opa, ope
 * Norwegian: fang
 * Old Norse: kjalta
 * Plautdietsch: Schoot
 * Polish: kolana ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: glùn, uchd
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кри́ло
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: lono
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠃꠞ
 * Tagalog: kandungan
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Zazaki: vırar


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:
 * Serbo-Croatian:


 * Spanish: ,


 * German:
 * Korean: (4)
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:

Verb

 * 1)  To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
 * 2)  To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
 * 1)  To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.

Etymology 2
From from earlier, from , , , from , , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (from 🇨🇬). . Also related to,.

The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on notion of "overlapping." The noun meaning "a turn around a track" (1861) is from this sense.

Verb

 * 1)  To fold; to bend and lay over or on something.
 * 2)  to wrap around, enwrap, wrap up
 * 3)  to envelop, enfold
 * 4)  to wind around
 * 5)  To place or lay (one thing) so as to overlap another.
 * 6)   To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
 * 7)  To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
 * 8)   To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
 * 9) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
 * 1)   To polish (a surface, especially metal or gemstone) with very fine abrasive to achieve smoothness and small dimensional changes.
 * 2)  To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
 * 3)   To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
 * 4) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
 * 1)  To be turned or folded; to lie partly on or over something; to overlap.
 * 2)   To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
 * 3) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
 * 1)   To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.
 * 2) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
 * 1) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.
 * 1) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Hungarian:, , , , ,


 * Hungarian:, ,


 * Bulgarian: припокривам се
 * Dutch:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: ohittaa kierroksella
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * German:

Noun

 * 1) The act or process of lapping.
 * 2) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another.
 * 3) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping.
 * 4) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap (see below).
 * 5)  One circuit around a race track.
 * 6)  The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
 * 7) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
 * 8) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
 * 9)  A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
 * 1)  The traversal of one length of the pool, or (less commonly) one length and back again.
 * 2) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
 * 3) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
 * 4)  A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.
 * 1) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
 * 2) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
 * 3)  A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, etc. or in polishing cutlery or in toolmaking. It is usually in the form of a wheel or disk that revolves on a vertical axis.

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian: припокриване
 * Finnish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: tour de circuit,
 * German:, Platzrunde
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: giro di pista
 * Maori: rauna
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: runde
 * Nynorsk: runde
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кру̑г
 * Roman:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:


 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 塘
 * German:, Bahnlänge


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: laappi


 * German:,  ,

Etymology 3
From, from , from , , from ; akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬. 🇨🇬 is a loanword from German. Compare 🇨🇬, dialect 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To take (liquid) into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
 * 2)  To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
 * 1)  To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
 * 1)  To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.
 * 1)  To wash against a surface with a splashing sound; to swash.

Translations

 * Arabic: وَلَغَ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:, , lipittää
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: λάπτω
 * Hungarian:
 * Ingrian: litkiä
 * Latvian: lakt
 * Norman: lapper, cliapoter
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: lepje
 * Nynorsk: lepja, lepje
 * Polish: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: imlich
 * Swedish:
 * Walloon:, ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: liplattaa
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1) The taking of liquid into the mouth with the tongue.
 * 2)  Liquor; alcoholic drink.
 * 1)  Liquor; alcoholic drink.

Derived terms

 * ex-lap

Derived terms

 * lap choly

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A patch, a rag, a piece of cloth.
 * 2) A plot, a tract.

Etymology
From. An cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and the like. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to slurp, lap up

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) even
 * 2) very
 * 3) downright, right, immediately, directly
 * 1) downright, right, immediately, directly

Determiner

 * 1) very

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , , of origin, possibly. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A rag, a piece of cloth.
 * 2) A patch, a piece of cloth.
 * 3) A slice of meat.
 * 4) A plot, a tract.

Etymology 2
Probably from Etymology 1 above, which dialectally meant "blow, strike", from which a semantic shift may have taken place to "stupidity". Or, possibly related ; the semantic shift would then be from "childlike" (as one who drinks sloppily) to "foolish".

Noun

 * 1)  A bloke, dude, bum; especially a drunk or objectionable one.

Interjection

 * 1)  exclamation of dismay, disappointment

Etymology
From, either directly or as a.

Noun

 * 1) sheet thin, flat piece of any solid material
 * 2) sheet piece of paper, usually rectangular, that has been prepared for writing, printing or other uses
 * 3)  page one side of a written or printed paper sheet
 * 4) newspaper, magazine, periodical publication issued regularly
 * 5) greeting card, postcard decorated card made of thick paper that is sent or given to someone
 * 6) playing card one piece out of a pack of cards used to play games
 * 7)  page one of many documents opened in a tabbed interface
 * 8)  face any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron
 * 9)  top the flat, horizontal surface of a table or desk
 * 10)  flat flat side of something, as opposed to the edge
 * 1) greeting card, postcard decorated card made of thick paper that is sent or given to someone
 * 2) playing card one piece out of a pack of cards used to play games
 * 3)  page one of many documents opened in a tabbed interface
 * 4)  face any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron
 * 5)  top the flat, horizontal surface of a table or desk
 * 6)  flat flat side of something, as opposed to the edge
 * 1)  page one of many documents opened in a tabbed interface
 * 2)  face any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron
 * 3)  top the flat, horizontal surface of a table or desk
 * 4)  flat flat side of something, as opposed to the edge
 * 1)  top the flat, horizontal surface of a table or desk
 * 2)  flat flat side of something, as opposed to the edge
 * 1)  top the flat, horizontal surface of a table or desk
 * 2)  flat flat side of something, as opposed to the edge
 * 1)  flat flat side of something, as opposed to the edge
 * 1)  flat flat side of something, as opposed to the edge

Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from , , of origin, possibly.

Noun

 * 1) a rag, a piece of cloth.

Etymology 2
From, from from earlier , from , , , from , , from.

Noun

 * 1) one circuit around a race track, or
 * 2) one traversal down and then back the length of a pool
 * 1) one traversal down and then back the length of a pool
 * 1) one traversal down and then back the length of a pool

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) leaf

Adverb

 * 1) quickly
 * 2) soon

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) laughter

Verb

 * 1) to laugh