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Russian
Etymology
Probably onomatopoeic; compare Ukrainian гоп (hop), Polish hop.
Pronunciation
Interjection
гоп • (gop)
- (colloquial) go!, hop! encouraging someone to jump, hop, or leap, or exclaimed while jumping or leaping.
- (colloquial) bam; representing a sudden, abrupt motion, e.g. striking, grabbing, etc.
1974, В. П. Астафьев, Царь-рыба:Поигра́ет крючо́чками-про́бочками стерля́дочка, гоп за бочо́к ― и в мешо́чек!- Poigrájet krjučóčkami-próbočkami sterljádočka, gop za bočók ― i v mešóček!
- The little sterlet plays with hooks and floats, then bam! we grab it by the belly and down our little bag it goes!
Derived terms
Ukrainian
Etymology
Onomatopoeic, comparable with Polish hop, Serbo-Croatian хоп.
A less likely theory is borrowing from German, compare German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”).
Pronunciation
Interjection
гоп • (hop)
- an interjection representing a jump
Derived terms
Further reading
- Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2010–2023), “гоп”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1–14 (а – префере́нція), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka; Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
- Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982), “гоп”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 1 (А – Г), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 561