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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?æp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

Shortened from chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th century English.

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

1. (dated outside Britain and Australia) A man, a fellow.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:man

2. (Britain, dialectal) A customer, a buyer.
   • 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera Act 3

     If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.

3. (Southern US) A child.

Derived terms

• chapess
• chappie
• chappo

Descendants

• Pennsylvania German: Tschaepp (“guy”)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chappen (“to split open, burst, chap”), of uncertain origin. Compare Middle English choppen (“to chop”), Dutch kappen (“to cut, chop, hack”). Perhaps related to chip.

Verb

chap (third-person singular simple present chaps, present participle chapping, simple past and past participle chapped)

1. (intransitive) Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
2. (transitive) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
   • 1712, Richard Blackmore, Creation: A Philosophical Poem

     Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.

   • 1591, John Lyly, Endymion

     whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.

3. (Scotland, Northern England) To strike, knock.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 35:

     The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]

Derived terms

• chapped
• chapstick

Translations

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

1. A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin.
2. (obsolete) A division; a breach, as in a party.

   • Many clefts and chaps in our council board.

3. (Scotland) A blow; a rap.

Derived terms

• chappy

Etymology 3

From Northern English chafts (“jaws”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

1. (archaic, often in the plural) The jaw.
   • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest

     This wide-chapp'd rascal—would thou might'st lie drowning / The washing of ten tides!

   • a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, The Song

     His chaps were all besmear'd with crimson blood.
2. One of the jaws or cheeks of a vice, etc.

Related terms

• chop

Translations

Etymology 4

Shortening

Noun

chap (plural chaps)

1. (Internet slang) Clipping of chapter (“division of a text”).

See also

• chaps

Anagrams

• CHPA, HCAP, PHAC, Pach

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

chap m (plural chappen, diminutive chappie n)

1. Alternative spelling of sjap.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xap/

Verb

chap

1. second-person singular imperative of chapa?

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?ap/

Etymology

Late Middle English, from Old English *?eappian, *?ieppan, from Proto-Germanic *kapp-, *kap- (“to chop; cut; split”), like also English chop. The ultimate origin is uncertain; possibly from Vulgar Latin *cuppare (“to behead”), from Latin caput (“head”) and influenced by Old French couper (“to strike”).

Akin to Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), Middle Low German koppen (“to cut off, lop, poll”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Danish kappe (“to cut, lop off, poll”), Swedish kapa (“to cut”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *?ippian (attested in for?ippian (“to cut off”)).

Verb

chap

1. (transitive, intransitive) To knock (on) or strike.

References

Semai

Alternative forms

• cap

Etymology

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *cap ~ *caap (“to seize”). Cognate with Old Khmer cap (“to seize, catch”), Kuy ca?p (“to catch, hold”).

Verb

chap

1. to hold
2. to catch; to seize
3. to touch

Synonyms

• (to hold): pegak
• (to touch): lèèw

Derived terms

References

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?øy?sa/
• Rhymes: -øy?sa

Verb

ausa (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative jós, third-person plural past indicative jusu, supine ausið) (eys)

1. (with dative) to ladle, to scoop
2. (with accusative) to bail, to remove water from a boat by scooping it out
3. (of horses) to kick up the hind legs

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• (to bail): ausa bát

Antonyms

• (to kick up the hind legs): prjóna

Derived terms

• ausa skömmum yfir
• ausa barn vatni

Noun

ausa f (genitive singular ausu, nominative plural ausur)

1. ladle, large spoon

Declension

Italian

Verb

ausa

1. third-person singular present indicative of ausare
2. second-person singular imperative of ausare

Latin

Participle

ausa

1. nominative feminine singular of ausus
2. nominative neuter plural of ausus
3. accusative neuter plural of ausus
4. vocative feminine singular of ausus
5. vocative neuter plural of ausus

Participle

aus?

1. ablative feminine singular of ausus

Latvian

Verb

ausa

1. 3rd person singular past indicative form of aust
2. 3rd person plural past indicative form of aust

Mambae

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *asu, from Proto-Austronesian *(w)asu.

Noun

ausa

1. dog (animal)

Neapolitan

Verb

1. present of ausà

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ausan?.

Verb

ausa (singular past indicative jós, plural past indicative jósu, josu, past participle ausinn)

1. (transitive, with dative) to sprinkle, pour

Conjugation

Noun

ausa f (genitive ausu, plural ausur)

1. a ladle

Declension

References

• ausa in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Weyewa

Verb

ausa

1. (Loli) to grasp, to grip

References

• Lobu Ori, S,Pd, M.Pd (2010) , “ausa”, in Kamus Bahasa Lolina [Dictionary of the Loli Language] (in Indonesian), Waikabubak: Kepala Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Barat