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Yes. The word hap is a Scrabble US word. The word hap is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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H4A1P3

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3-letter words (2 found)

HAP,PAH,

2-letter words (3 found)

AH,HA,PA,

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hap ahp hpa pha aph pah

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Definitions and meaning of hap

hap

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hæp/
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”).

Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).

The verb is from Middle English happen, from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).

Noun

hap (plural haps)

  1. (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
  2. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.
Synonyms
  • (happenings): affairs; see also Thesaurus:occurrence
  • (an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event): hazard, serendipity; see also Thesaurus:luck
Derived terms
See also
  • what's the haps

Verb

hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)

  1. (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.
    Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire; see also Thesaurus:happen
  2. (transitive, literary) To happen to.

Etymology 2

From Old English hap.

Noun

hap (plural haps)

  1. (UK, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.
Derived terms
  • hap-harlot

Verb

hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)

  1. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.

Etymology 3

Shortening of New Latin Haplochromis

Noun

hap (plural haps)

  1. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

Anagrams

  • AHP, PAH, PHA, Pha, pah

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skapa, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, split, dig”). Compare English shape, German schaffen (“make, create”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”). Compare Low German apen, Icelandic opna, Norwegian åpne (“to open”), English open.

Verb

hap (aorist hapa, participle hapur)

  1. to open
    Synonym: çel

Conjugation

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦɑp/
  • Hyphenation: hap
  • Rhymes: -ɑp

Etymology 1

Possibly borrowed from French happer (“to bite, snap”), but both are ultimately imitative either way.

Noun

hap m (plural happen, diminutive hapje n)

  1. (often diminutive) bite
  2. chunk
  3. (often diminutive) snack, light meal
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Papiamentu: hap
  • → Indonesian: hap

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

hap

  1. inflection of happen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Irish

Alternative forms

  • hop

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Noun

hap m (genitive singular hap, nominative plural hapanna)

  1. hop
  2. blow

Declension

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “hap”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Entries containing “hap” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • happe, hape, heppe

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse happ.

Noun

hap (plural happes)

  1. luck (whether good or bad)

Descendants

  • English: hap
  • Yola: hap

References

  • “hap, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حب (hap), from Arabic حَبّ (ḥabb, “grains, seeds, pills”).

Noun

hap n (plural hapuri)

  1. pill (medicine)

Declension

Seri

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʔɑp/

Noun

hap (plural hap)

  1. deer
    Synonym: ziix heecot quiih

Derived terms

References

  • Moser, Mary B., Marlett, Stephen A. (2010) Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricaana iitom [Seri-Spanish-English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Hermosillo: Plaza y Valdés Editores, →ISBN, page 334.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English half.

Noun

hap

  1. half
  2. part
  3. place, one of a few places

Adverb

hap

  1. there

Derived terms

  • hap sankamap

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic حَبّ (ḥabb, “grains, seeds, pills”).

Noun

hap (definite accusative hapı, plural haplar)

  1. pill

Declension

Descendants

  • Greek: χάπι (chápi, “pill”)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hap, from Old Norse happ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hap/

Noun

hap

  1. chance, look

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 44

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