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Borrowed from French lapin (“rabbit”).

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lapin (plural lapins)

Rabbit fur.
A castrated male rabbit.

Pinal, plain, palin-, Plain, Palin, plani-, Aplin, Lipan, in lap

IPA^(key): /lapɪn/

lapin ?

rabbit

From Middle French lapin, alteration of lapereau, with change of suffix after connin, a word it replaced.

IPA^(key): /la.pɛ̃/
(Quebec) IPA^(key): /la.pẽ/

lapin m (plural lapins, feminine lapine)

rabbit
Synonym: (dated, literary) connil

Haitian Creole: lapen
Mauritian Creole: lapen
Seychellois Creole: lapen
→ Breton: lapin
→ English: lapin
→ Italian: lapin
→ Norman: lapin
→ Piedmontese: lapin

“lapin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

alpin
plain

Borrowed from French lapin (“rabbit”).

lapin m (invariable)

rabbit skin or fur

coniglio

palin-, plani, plani-

lapin m (plural lapins)

rabbit

French: lapin (see there for further descendants)

lapîn (Jersey)

Borrowed from French lapin.

lapin m (plural lapins)

(Guernsey) rabbit
- 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 516:
  Où 'est qu'il y a du crottin, il y a du lapìn.
  Where you see their droppings, you may expect to find rabbits.

IPA^(key): /laˈpiŋ/

lapin m

rabbit