leap

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. .

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from (compare 🇨🇬 ‘to become lame’,  ‘to stumble’).

Verb

 * 1)  To jump.
 * 2) * 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Iliad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65
 * Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.
 * 1) * 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78
 * It is better to leap into the void.
 * 1)  To pass over by a leap or jump.
 * 2)  To copulate with (a female beast)
 * 3)  To copulate with (a human)
 * 4)  To cause to leap.
 * 1)  To copulate with (a female beast)
 * 2)  To copulate with (a human)
 * 3)  To cause to leap.
 * 1)  To cause to leap.
 * 1)  To cause to leap.

Usage notes
The choice between and  is often generally a matter of regional differences:  is preferred in British English whereas  is somewhat more common in American English (although this is not to say that  is not used in American English, especially in areas with historical ties to England). According to research by John Algeo (British or American English?, Cambridge, 2006), is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: թռավ,
 * Aromanian: sar, ansar
 * Asturian: saltar
 * Basque:
 * Breton:, sailhañ
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᎵᏔᏕᎦ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: eksalti
 * Estonian: hüppama
 * Faroese: leypa, hoppa, støkka, springa
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: saltâ
 * Galician: brincar,, , avantar, galgar, ralbar, pinchar
 * Georgian: ხტომა, ხტუნვა, ხტუნაობა, ნახტომი
 * German:, einen Satz machen,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: ἅλλομαι, θρῴσκω, πηδάω
 * Gujarati: કૂદવું, ઠેકવું
 * Haryanvi: डाक
 * Hebrew:
 * Higaonon: lagso
 * Hindi:
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Ingrian: hypätä
 * Irish: léim
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer:
 * Latin: saliō, circumsilio
 * Luxembourgish: sprangen
 * Macedonian: отскокнува, скокнува
 * Maltese: qabża
 * Maori: peke, arawhiti
 * Middle English: lepen, spryngen
 * Mongolian: ,
 * Neapolitan: zumpà
 * Norwegian: sprang, ,
 * Occitan: ,
 * Old English: hlēapan
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Sanskrit: प्रवते,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leum
 * Slovak: skočiť, skákať, preskočiť, preskakovať
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: sumibol, lumukso, luksuhin, lumundag, lundagin
 * Tamil: ,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , , , tüngümek,
 * Vietnamese: nhảy (lên, qua, ...)
 * Walloon:, ,
 * West Frisian: springe, ljeppe
 * Zazaki: tılobyayen


 * German:

Noun

 * 1) The act of leaping or jumping.
 * 2) * 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics
 * Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.
 * 1) The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
 * 2) A group of leopards.
 * 3)  A significant move forward.
 * 4)  A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
 * It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
 * 1)  A fault.
 * 2) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
 * 3)  A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
 * 4) A salmon ladder.
 * 1)  A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.
 * It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
 * 1)  A fault.
 * 2) Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
 * 3)  A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
 * 4) A salmon ladder.
 * 1)  A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
 * 2) A salmon ladder.
 * 1) A salmon ladder.

Translations

 * Azerbaijani: sıçrayış
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:, pincho, chimpo,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πήδημα, ἅλμα
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: hyppy
 * Irish: f2
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Old English: hlīep
 * Plautdietsch: Sprunk
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leum
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Vietnamese:, ,


 * Bulgarian:, прескок
 * German:
 * Japanese: 跳躍距離
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leum
 * Swedish: hopplängd, språnglängd
 * Vietnamese:


 * Azerbaijani: sıçrayış
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, hyppäys
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: leum
 * Slovak:, pokrok
 * Swedish: ,
 * Vietnamese: ,


 * German: Verwerfung


 * French:
 * Japanese:
 * Spanish:


 * Breton:, (1)
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Macedonian:
 * Tamil:

Adjective

 * 1)  Intercalary, bissextile.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
 * 2) Half a bushel.

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

Noun

 * 1) basket
 * 2) container, vessel
 * 3)  basketful
 * 4) a weel for catching fish; weely