drapa

• drápa

From Old Norse drápa.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑːpə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːpə

drapa (plural drapur)

1. A heroic, laudatory verse form in old Icelandic, popular between the 10th and 13th centuries and featuring a refrain
   • 1997, Bernard Scudder (tranlator), Egil's Saga, in The Sagas of Icelanders (Penguin 2001, p. 91)

     Egil composed a drapa in praise of the king which includes the following verse —

• DARPA, padar

drapa

1. third-person singular past historic of draper

• drapjo

• IPA^(key):

drapa

1. third-person singular present of drapaś

• drapene

drapa n

1. definite plural of drap

drapa n

1. definite plural of drap

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Goral):
    • (Żywiec) IPA^(key): /ˈdra.pa/

drapa m inan

1. (Żywiec) small, sparse spruce forest

• Izydor Kopernicki (1875) “drapa”, in “Spostrzeżenia nad właściwościami językowémi w mowie Górali Bieskidowych z dodatkiem słowniczka wyrazów góralskich”, in Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności (I), volume 3, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 369

Borrowed from French draper.

a drapa (third-person singular present drapează, past participle drapat) 1st conjugation

1. to drape

From Icelandic drápa, likely originally in the sense "song over a slain man". Doublet of dråp and dräpa.

drapa c

1. panegyric
2. (ironic) polemical article

• drapa in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• drapa in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• drapa in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)