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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /laˈpit/
- Hyphenation: la‧pit
Noun
lapít (Basahan spelling ᜎᜉᜒᜆ᜔)
- (anatomy) testicles (of a male child)
- Synonyms: bayag, sugok-sugok, bunay-bunay, itlog
Finnish
Noun
lapit
- nominative plural of lappi
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Lapithae or French lapithe.
Noun
lapit m (plural lapiți)
- Lapith
Declension
Tagalog
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dapət (“to place in contact with one another, come in contact, space closely”) or Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *rapət (“to join together, attach tightly”). Compare Indonesian rapat (“close; tight”), Javanese ꦫꦥꦼꦠ꧀ (rapet, “tightly closed; close; next to”), Malagasy rafitra (“carpenter's work, masonry”).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- IPA(key): /ˈlapit/ , (colloquial) /ˈlapet/ (noun)
- IPA(key): /laˈpit/ , (colloquial) /laˈpet/ (adjective)
- Syllabification: la‧pit
Noun
lapit (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜉᜒᜆ᜔)
- nearness; proximity; closeness
- Synonym: kalapitan
- approaching (of a person or place)
- Synonyms: dais, pagdais, paglapit
- seeking of help (by approaching someone)
- intimacy; closeness
- Synonyms: talik, katalikan
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Adjective
lapít (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜉᜒᜆ᜔)
- near each other
- Synonyms: magkalapit, tabi, magkatabi
Further reading
- “lapit”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*dapet”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*rapet”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI
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