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Hokkien
Macanese
Etymology
Borrowed from Cantonese 垃圾 (laap6 saap3).
Noun
lap-sap
- trash, rubbish, garbage
Amochâi, vôs atirâ sapeca tê lap-sap!- Dear, you are throwing away your money!
- (literally, “Dear, you are throwing money to the trash!”)
Sorte quê APIM já oferecê bilête pa iou; si nunca, sâm atirâ sapeca tê lap-sap.- Luckily, APIM offered me tickets; otherwise, it would be like throwing my money away.
- (literally, “...it is throwing money to the trash”)
Usage notes
- Often used metaphorically to refer to the wastage of a resource.
- The etymology of tê is uncertain; it is possible that tê lap-sap as a phrase was derived from Cantonese 掉垃圾 (deu6 laap6 saap3, literally “throw trash”); although according to native speakers, lap-sap is sometimes also used standalone. An origin of Portuguese ter is unlikely, as that already resulted in têm. Instead, it may be an aphetic form of earlier atê, from Portuguese até (“to”).