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From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)
- (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I:
Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down.
- to lop the head
- (to cut off): snead
cut off
- Arabic: قَلَّمَ (ar) (qallama)
- Bulgarian: кастря (bg) (kastrja), подрязвам (bg) (podrjazvam)
- Czech: osekat pf, prořezat pf, prosekat pf
- Galician: fanar, demoucar, decotar, podar (gl), moucar
- Greek: κλαδεύω (el) (kladévo)
- Hungarian: levág (hu), lenyes (hu), lecsíp (hu), levesz (hu)
- Ido: rekortar (io)
- Irish: meang
- Latin: putō (la)
- Maori: pōuto
- Portuguese: podar (pt), cortar (pt)
- Russian: обруба́ть (ru) n (obrubátʹ)
- Spanish: podar (es), cortar (es), mochar (es)
- Swedish: kvista (sv), avkvista
- Turkish: budamak (tr)
lop (plural lops)
- That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
Why, we take,
From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:
I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).
lop (plural lops)
- (Geordie) A flea.
Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems:
Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops
- Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, →ISBN
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
- “lop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]
Back-formation from lopsided.
lop (plural lops)
From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap.
lop
- to count
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)
lop m (plural lops) (ORB, broad)
- loup in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
- lop in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 434: “il lupo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[4] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 783: “loup” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lŭpus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 457
Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.[1]
lop
- (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)
- Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.
- Synonyms: (slang) csór, lenyúl, meglovasít, megfúj, (literary) oroz, (formal) eltulajdonít, (euphemistic, informal) elemel
- Perfective: ellop
(With verbal prefixes):
- ^ lop in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
- lop 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
From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *lōp.
lop
- “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
lop
- Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)
From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.
From Proto-Finnic *loppu.
lop
Inflection of lop (inflection type 1/ilo) | |||
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nominative sing. | lop | ||
genitive sing. | lopun | ||
partitive sing. | lopud | ||
partitive plur. | lopuid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lop | lopud | |
accusative | lopun | lopud | |
genitive | lopun | lopuiden | |
partitive | lopud | lopuid | |
essive-instructive | lopun | lopuin | |
translative | lopuks | lopuikš | |
inessive | lopus | lopuiš | |
elative | lopuspäi | lopuišpäi | |
illative | lopuhu | lopuihe | |
adessive | lopul | lopuil | |
ablative | lopulpäi | lopuilpäi | |
allative | lopule | lopuile | |
abessive | loputa | lopuita | |
comitative | lopunke | lopuidenke | |
prolative | lopudme | lopuidme | |
approximative I | lopunno | lopuidenno | |
approximative II | lopunnoks | lopuidennoks | |
egressive | lopunnopäi | lopuidennopäi | |
terminative I | lopuhusai | lopuihesai | |
terminative II | lopulesai | lopuilesai | |
terminative III | lopussai | — | |
additive I | lopuhupäi | lopuihepäi | |
additive II | lopulepäi | lopuilepäi |
lop (nominative plural lops)