dop

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From Middle English doppe, from Old English *doppa (“dipper”) (compare diepan), as in Old English dūfedoppa (“pelican”).

Noun

dop (plural dops)

1. A diving bird.

Etymology 2

From Middle English doppen, from Old English *doppian (“to dip, dive, plunge”), related to Old English doppettan (“to dip, dip in, immerse”).

Verb

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)

1. (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)

   I dopped my exams.

2. To dip or duck.
   • 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, , London: T. Maxey for Rich Marriot, , →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:

     you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight

Etymology 3

From Dutch dop, from Middle Dutch dop, dup, doppe, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, shell, bowl”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dop (“shell, pod, bowl”), German Topf (“pot”).

Alternative forms

• dopp

Noun

dop (plural dops)

1. (South Africa, slang). A drink.

   Let's go to the bar for a dop.

2. (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.

   Give me a dop of brandy.

3. (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. ”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: Will Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     The Venetian dop this

4. (diamond-cutting) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

Synonyms

• (cup in which diamond is cut): doop

Verb

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)

1. (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
   • 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game, page 170:

     They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.

See also

• dop kit

Anagrams

• -pod, DPO, ODP, PDO, PO'd, POD, po'd, pod, pod-

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔp/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: dop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch doppe, dup, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, well, bowl”). Cognate with German Topf (“pot”).

Noun

dop m (plural doppen, diminutive dopje n)

1. A shell (of an egg or a fruit for example).

   Beter een half ei dan een hele dop. - Better half an egg than a whole (empty) shell.

2. A hemispherical container such as a thimble.
3. A bottle cap.

   Synonym: flessendop

4. (chiefly in the plural) An eyelid.

   Kijk uit je doppen! - Look out!

5. (Belgium, uncountable) The dole, unemployment benefit.

Derived terms

• dopbeitel
• dopbonen
• doperwt
• dopgeld
• dopheide
• dophoed
• dopijzer
• dopjongen
• doppen (verb)
• doppot
• dopverband
• dopvrucht
• eierdop
• flessendop
• in de dop
• vingerdop
• wieldop

Descendants

• Petjo: dop
• → Indonesian: dop
• → Papiamentu: dòpi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dop

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

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian dopo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dop/, /dɔp/

Preposition

dop

1. behind, after (in place), back of

   L'automobilo esas dop la parieto.

   The car is behind the wall.

Antonyms

• avan

Derived terms

• dopa (“back, rear, hind”)
• dope (“astern, at the back, aback”)
• dopo (“back”)
• dopajo (“rear, back (object or part behind)”)
• dedop (“from behind”)
• dop-

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch dop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: dop

Noun

dop (first-person possessive dopku, second-person possessive dopmu, third-person possessive dopnya)

1. A cap of axis.
2. An arc lamp.

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Transylvanian Saxon Dop (“stopper”).

Noun

dop n (plural dopuri)

1. cork (of a bottle), stopper

   Synonym: (popular) astupuș

Declension

Derived terms

• îndopa

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German dōpe, from Old Saxon dōpi, from Proto-West Germanic *daupīni, from Proto-Germanic *daupīniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.

Related to doppa (“to dip”), döpa (“to baptize”).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /duːp/

Noun

dop n

1. A baptism, a christening ceremony.

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• djup
• dopp
• doppa
• döpa

References

• dop in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• dop in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• dop in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• dop in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)