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English

Etymology

From Middle English galopen (“to gallop”), from Old French galoper (compare modern French galoper), from Frankish *wala hlaupan (“to run well”), from *wala (“well”) + *hlaupan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan? (“to run, leap, spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *klaup-, *klaub- (“to spring, stumble”). Possibly also derived from a deverbal of Frankish *walhlaup (“battle run”) from *wal (“battlefield”) from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "dead, victim, slain" from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“death in battle, killed in battle”) + *hlaup (“course, track”) from *hlaupan (“to run”). More at well, leap, valkyrie. See also the doublet wallop, coming from the same source through an Old Northern French variant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æl?p/
• Homophone: Gallup

Noun

gallop (plural gallops)

1. The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.
2. An abnormal rhythm of the heart, made up of three or four sounds, like a horse's gallop.

Derived terms

• Gish gallop

Translations

Verb

gallop (third-person singular simple present gallops, present participle galloping, simple past and past participle galloped)

1. (intransitive, of a horse, etc) To run at a gallop.

2. (intransitive) To ride at a galloping pace.
   • a. 1631, John Donne, Epithalamion Made at Lincoln's Inn

     Gallop lively down the western hill.

3. (transitive) To cause to gallop.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To make electrical or other utility lines sway and/or move up and down violently, usually due to a combination of high winds and ice accrual on the lines.
5. (intransitive) To run very fast.
6. (figuratively, intransitive) To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.

   • Such superficial ideas he may collect in galloping over it.

   • 1847, Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

     Soon after breakfast Miss Matilda, having galloped and blundered through a few unprofitable lessons, and vengeably thumped the piano for an hour, in a terrible humour with both me and it, because her mama would not give her a holiday, […]

7. (intransitive, of an infection, especially pneumonia) To progress rapidly through the body.

Translations

English

Etymology

From French galop; named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade.

Noun

galop (plural galops)

1. A lively French country dance of the nineteenth century, a forerunner of the polka, combining a glissade with a chassé on alternate feet, usually in a fast 2/4 time.
2. The music for a dance of this kind.

Verb

galop (third-person singular simple present galops, present participle galoping or galopped, simple past and past participle galoped or galopped)

1. To dance the galop.

Anagrams

• Gopal

Afrikaans

Etymology

From English gallop.

Verb

galop (present galop, present participle galoppende, past participle gegalop or galop)

1. gallop

Catalan

Noun

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop (fastest gait of a horse)

Related terms

• galopar

Further reading

• “galop” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Danish

Etymology

From French galop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?al?p/, [??a?l?b?]

Noun

galop c (singular definite galoppen, plural indefinite galopper)

1. gallop

Inflection

Further reading

• “galop” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From galoper.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.lo/
• Homophone: galops

Noun

galop m (plural galops)

1. gallop

Derived terms

• chassez le naturel, il revient au galop

Descendants

• ? Danish: galop
• ? English: galop
• ? Italian: galop

Further reading

• “galop” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From French galop.

Noun

galop m (invariable)

1. galop (originally German folk dance)

Further reading

• galop in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.l?p/

Noun

galop m inan

1. canter (three-beat horse gait)

Declension

See also

• cwa?

Further reading

• galop in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• galop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French galop

Noun

galop n (plural galopuri)

1. gallop

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??lop/
• Hyphenation: ga?lop

Noun

gàlop m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. gallop

Declension