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lop

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɒp/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /lɑp/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /lɔp/, /lɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

1. (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

   to lop the head

Synonyms

• (to cut off): snead

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

See also

• defalcate

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Etymology 2

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (Geordie) A flea.

Derived terms

• fit as a lop

Related terms

• lobster

References

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “LOP”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “lop”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• “lop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “lop”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• “Lop”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[2], archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Etymology 3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

See also

• lob
• lop chong

Anagrams

• Pol., POL, PLO, pol, OLP, LPO

A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap.

Verb

lop

1. to count

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

Achang

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /lɔp˧/

Noun

lop

1. grave

Derived terms

• lop dwang

Further reading

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[4], Payap University, page 73

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• lo (Old Dauphinois)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin lupus.

Noun

lop m (plural lops) (ORB, broad)

1. wolf

References

• loup in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• lop in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 434: “il lupo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[5] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 783: “loup” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lŭpus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 457

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlop]
• Rhymes: -op

Verb

lop

1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)

   Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.

   Synonyms: (slang) csór, lenyúl, meglovasít, megfúj, (literary) oroz, (formal) eltulajdonít, (euphemistic, informal) elemel

   Perfective: ellop

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Descendants

See also

References

Further reading

• lop in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *lōp.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔp̚]
• Hyphenation: lop

Noun

lop

1. barrel (of a firearm)

   Synonym: laras

Further reading

• “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

lop

1. alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlup]

Noun

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf

Derived terms

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

1. end
2. (often in the plural) the rest
3. (grammar) ending

Declension

Volapük

Noun

lop (nominative plural lops)

1. opera

Declension

Derived terms

• lopöp
• lopül

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