лапа

Akin to Lezgi лепе (lepe). ultimately from persian Persian لبه.

лапа • (lapa)

1. a wave

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, possibly borrowed from Russian (omitted in Gerov's dictionary).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

ла́па • (lápa) f (diminutive ла́пичка)

1. paw (lower end of animal's limbs)

   попа́дам в ла́пите ― popádam v lápite ― to fall under control (literally, “to fall into the paws [of someone]”)

   изтръ́гвам ня́кого от ла́пите ― iztrǎ́gvam njákogo ot lápite ― to emancipate someone from [someone else's] control/hold (literally, “to wrest someone from [someone else's] paws”)

2. (figurative, colloquial) rough, big human's hand

• ла́пица (lápica, “animal's lower limb”)
• ла́пест (lápest), ла́пав (lápav, “with large paws”)

• лапа́вец (lapávec, “type of flat sweetwater fish”) (dialectal, regional)

• “ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “ла́па”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاپا (“lapa”). Also loaned into Greek λαπα̃ς (lapãs), dialectal Albanian lapë, Romanian lapă, Aromanian lapa with similar meanings.

• IPA^(key): [ɫɐˈpa]

лапа́ • (lapá) f

1. (dialectal, dated, often only in plural) old-fashioned cataplasm (usually made of flour or barn mixed with water)

   Synonym: лече́бна ка́ша (lečébna káša)

• “лапа́”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “лапи́”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лапа́¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “*лапа́”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎^[1] (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 5

From Proto-Slavic *xlapa (“slush, sleet”) with colloquial elision of initial #x-, cognate with Polish chlapa. Perhaps related to Lithuanian šlãpias (“wet”), šlãpė (“damp place or land”).

• IPA^(key): [ɫɐˈpa]

лапа́ • (lapá) f

1. (obsolete) sleet, slush (mixture of rain, snow, and/or hail)

   Synonyms: ки́ша (kíša), сугра́шица (sugrášica), мо́кър сняг (mókǎr snjag)

• лапа́вина (lapávina, “melted snow, slush”) (dialectal)
• лапа́вица (lapávica, “bad weather with sleet”) (dialectal)

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лапа́²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

ла́па • (lápa)

1. third-person singular present indicative of ла́пам (lápam)

• пала (pala)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapa]
• Rhymes: -apa

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olpati.

лапа • (lapa) third-singular present, impf (perfective лапне)

1. (transitive) to eat gluttonously, gobble
2. (transitive) to place in one's mouth
3. (transitive) to make out with

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa. Cognate with Russian ла́па (lápa), Polish łapa.

лапа • (lapa) f

1. paw

Possibly from Ottoman Turkish [Term?]. Cognate with Turkish lapa, Greek λαπάς (lapás).

лапа • (lapa) f

1. a type of dish made with rice and poppy

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapə]

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ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пы, nominative plural ла́пы, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)

1. paw
   • 1925, Сергей Есенин [Sergei Yesenin], Собаке Качалова; English translation from Peter Tempest, transl., To Kachalov's Dog, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982:

     Дай, Джим, на сча́стье ла́пу мне,
     Таку́ю ла́пу не вида́л я сро́ду.
     Дава́й с тобо́й пола́ем при луне́
     На ти́хую, бесшу́мную пого́ду.
     Дай, Джим, на сча́стье ла́пу мне.

     Daj, Džim, na sčástʹje lápu mne,
     Takúju lápu ne vidál ja sródu.
     Daváj s tobój polájem pri luné
     Na tíxuju, besšúmnuju pogódu.
     Daj, Džim, na sčástʹje lápu mne.

     Соmе, Jim, give mе your paw for luck,
     I swear I've neveг seen one like it.
     Let's go, the two of us, and bark
     Up at the mооn when Nature's silent.
     Соmе, Jim, give me your paw fог luck.

2. (colloquial) human's hand or foot

• → Ingrian: laappa

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

• Audio:

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ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пи, nominative plural ла́пи, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)

1. paw