kelep
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
kelep (plural keleps)
- The Guatemalan stinging ant Ectatomma tuberculatum.
Angguruk Yali
Noun
kelep
References
- Christiaan Fahner, The morphology of Yali and Dani (1979), page 157
Hungarian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Interjection
kelep
- clatter, clapper (the representation of the clattering sound a stork makes by snapping its bills together)
- 1959, Sándor Sásdi, Elhagyott szerető:
- A tó nádasban végződő részén gólya áll egy lábon, néha a szárnya alá nyúl csőrével, hirtelen az égre mered, azt mondja: „Kelep... kelep..."
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
See also
Further reading
- kelep in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN