drap

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See also: drop, Drap, dràp, dráp, dräp, dråp, and драп

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɹæp/
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Etymology 1

Borrowed from French drap.

Noun

drap (plural draps)

  1. (archaic) Cloth.
Related terms

Etymology 2

See drop.

Verb

drap (third-person singular simple present draps, present participle drapping, simple past and past participle drapped)

  1. (Scotland) To drop.

Noun

drap (plural draps)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of drop.
    • 1921, Robert W. Service, “The Twa Jocks”, in Ballads of a Bohemian:
      We've got tae get back wi' her, Hecky. Whit mercy we didna get fou!
      We'll no touch a drap o' that likker—
      that's hard, man, ye canna deny. . . .

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin drappus.

Pronunciation

Noun

drap m (plural draps)

  1. cloth; rag

Derived terms

Further reading

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Late Latin drappus, drappum (cloth); compare Italian drappo, French drap.

Noun

drap m

  1. drape, cloth
  2. linen
  3. underwear

Adjective

drap

  1. having the color of sand
  2. having the color of human skin

French

Etymology

From Late Latin drappum (cloth), first recorded in Frankish ordinances (The Capitularies of Charles the Great). More at drape.

Pronunciation

Noun

drap m (plural draps)

  1. sheet, duvet

Related terms

Descendants

  • English: drap
  • Russian: драп (drap)

Further reading

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

drap

  1. second-person singular imperative of drapaś

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French drap.

Noun

drap m (plural draps)

  1. cloth (textile)

Descendants

  • French: drap (see there for further descendants)
  • ? English: drab

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dráp.

Noun

drap n (definite singular drapet, indefinite plural drap, definite plural drapa or drapene)

  1. homicide, killing, murder
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

drap m

  1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of drepe

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dráp.

Alternative forms

Noun

drap n (definite singular drapet, indefinite plural drap, definite plural drapa)

  1. homicide
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

drap

  1. past of drepa

References

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin drappus, of Germanic origin.

Noun

drap oblique singularm (oblique plural dras, nominative singular dras, nominative plural drap)

  1. sheet or covering
  2. clothing

Descendants

  • Middle French: drap
    • French: drap (see there for further descendants)
    • ? English: drab
  • Picard: drâp (Athois)
  • Walloon: drap (Liégeois)
  • Middle English: drape

Polish

Pronunciation

Verb

drap

  1. second-person singular imperative of drapać