Kip in Scrabble and Meaning

• Finder
• Unscrambler
• Dictionary

Valid words made from Kip

Results

3-letter words (1 found)

2-letter words (2 found)

You can make 3 words from kip according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of kip

kip

Translingual

Symbol

kip

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sheshi Kham.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sheshi Kham terms

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭp, IPA^(key): /kɪp/
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

1325–75, Middle English kipp, from Middle Dutch kip, from Middle Low German kip (“pack, bundle of hides”).

Alternative forms

• kipp, kippe, kyppe

Noun

kip (countable and uncountable, plural kips)

1. The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or young goat.
2. A bundle or set of such hides.
3. (obsolete) A unit of count for skins, 30 for lamb and 50 for goat.
4. The leather made from such hide.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

1760–70, probably related to Danish kippe (“dive, hovel, cheap inn”) and Middle Low German kiffe (“hovel”). From the same distant Germanic root as cove.

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A place to sleep; a rooming house; a bed.
2. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Sleep, snooze, nap, forty winks, doze.

3. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland) A very untidy house or room.
4. (informal, chiefly UK, Ireland, dated) A brothel.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

1. (informal, chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.

   Synonym: (US) crash

Derived terms

• kip down
• kip in
• kip out
• kip up

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English kippen, from Old Norse kippa (“to pull; snatch”) or Middle Dutch kippen (“to grasp, seize, catch”). Cognate with Norwegian kippe (“to snatch”), Swedish kippa (“to snatch; jerk”); Dutch kippen (“to seize; catch”). Perhaps conflated with some senses of Middle English kepen (“to keep, observe, guard, take possession of, snatch”) (see keep).

Verb

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

2. (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England) To snatch; take up hastily; filch
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To hold or keep (together)
4. (intransitive, dialectal, Northern England) To conduct oneself; act

Etymology 4

1910–15, Americanism, abbreviated from kilo + pound.

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. A unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force (lbf) (4.44822 kilonewtons or 4448.22 newtons); occasionally called the kilopound.
2. A unit of weight, used, for example, to calculate shipping charges, equal to half a US ton, or 1000 pounds.
3. (rare, nonstandard) A unit of mass equal to 1000 avoirdupois pounds.

Etymology 5

1950–55, from Lao ກີບ (kīp).

Noun

kip (plural kip)

1. The unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att, symbol ₭, abbreviation LAK.

Translations

Etymology 6

Unknown. Perhaps related to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire dialect kep, to toss up into the air. Or else, perhaps related to German Kippe (“stub”).

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. (Australia, games, two-up) A piece of flat wood used to throw the coins in a game of two-up.

References

Etymology 7

Unknown.

Noun

kip (plural kips)

1. (gymnastics) A basic skill or maneuver in artistic gymnastics on the uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar and still rings used, for example, as a way of mounting the bar in a front support position, or achieving a handstand from a hanging position. In its basic form, the legs are swung forward and upward by bending the hips, then suddenly down again, which gives the upward impulse to the body.
2. (Scotland) A sharp-pointed hill; a projecting point, as on a hill.

Derived terms

• kip-up

Translations

Verb

kip (third-person singular simple present kips, present participle kipping, simple past and past participle kipped)

1. (gymnastics, intransitive) To perform the kip maneuver.

Anagrams

• KPI, PKI

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Adjective

kip (comparative daha kip, superlative ən kip)

1. tight, close (firmly held together; compact; not loose or open)

Adverb

kip

1. tight

   kip oturmaq ― to sit closely

   qapını kip örtmək ― to shut the door tightly

Derived terms

• kip-kip

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪp/
• Hyphenation: kip
• Rhymes: -ɪp

Etymology 1

Possibly from an imitative birdcall. Not found in Middle Dutch or other Germanic languages. Displaced the older term hen in northern Dutch around the 18th century. The policeman sense might be from French "poulet", refering to police station in Paris that was built over a former farm.

Noun

kip f (plural kippen, diminutive kippetje n or kipje n)

1. (chiefly Netherlands) a chicken, Gallus gallus domesticus

   Synonym: huishoen

2. a female chicken, a hen

   Synonyms: hen, hoen, kieken

3. (dated, slang, Netherlands) Synonym of politieagent

Derived terms

Descendants

• Petjo: kip (archaic)
• → Loup A: kipkip
• → Mohawk: kítkit
• → Oneida: kítkit
• → Mohegan-Pequot: kikipus

Further reading

• kip (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Etymology 2

From Lao ກີບ (kīp).

Noun

kip m (uncountable)

1. Kip, currency in Laos

References

Anagrams

• pik

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• keep

Etymology

Derived from English keep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiːp/

Verb

kip

1. to keep.
2. to hold a ceremony or event.

Further reading

• Frederic Gomes Cassidy ((Can we date this quote?)) Dictionary of Jamaican English‎^[2], page 258

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English cheap.

Adjective

kip (neuter kipt, definite singular and plural kipe, comparative kipare, indefinite superlative kipast, definite superlative kipaste)

1. (pre-2005) alternative form of kjip

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkip/
• Rhymes: -ip
• Syllabification: kip
• Homophone: Kip

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Lao ກີບ (kīp).

Noun

kip m animal

1. kip (unit of currency in Laos, divided into 100 att)

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kip f

1. genitive plural of kipa

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kip

1. second-person singular imperative of kipieć

Further reading

• kip in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French kip.

Noun

kip m (plural kipi)

1. kip

Declension

References

• kip in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From a Turkic language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîːp/

Noun

kȋp m (Cyrillic spelling ки̑п)

1. statue

   Kip Slobode ― the Statue of Liberty

   Zeusov kip u Olimpiji ― the statue of Zeus at Olympia

   arheolog je pažljivo ispitao kip ― archeologist has carefully examined the statue

Declension

Derived terms

• ukípiti

References

• “kip”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kíːp/

Noun

kȋp m inan

1. statue

Declension

Tocharian A

Etymology

Compare Tocharian B kwīpe.

Noun

kip m

1. shame

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [cip]

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Karakhanid [script needed] (kīp), from Proto-Turkic *kēp (“form, image, example”). The sense mood is a semantic loan from Arabic صيغة (ṣīḡa, “form”), coined by Hüseyin Hüsâmeddin Yasar in 1926 and popularized during the language reform and displaced siga, sıyga. Doublet of gibi, which is inherited through Proto-Turkic *kēpi.

Noun

kip (definite accusative kipi, plural kipler) (neologism)

1. (grammar, linguistics) mood
2. (obsolete) example, form

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Azerbaijani kip. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Adjective

kip (dialectal)

1. fitting, just right
2. sturdy, strong

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “kip”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kip”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

West Uvean

Etymology

From English key.

Noun

kip

1. key

References

• Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org