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English

Alternative forms

• yift (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English gift (also yift, yeft, ?ift, ?eft), partly from Old English ?ift (“giving, consideration, dowry, wedding”) and Old Norse gipt (“gift, present, wedding”); both from Proto-Germanic *giftiz (“gift”). Equivalent to give +? -th (etymologically yive + -th). Cognate with West Frisian jefte (“gift”), Saterland Frisian Gift (“gift”), German Low German Gift (“poison”), Dutch gift (“gift”) and its doublet gif (“poison”), German Gift (“poison”), Swedish gift (“gift, poison, venom”), Icelandic gift (“gift”). Doublet of yift.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: g?ft, IPA^(key): /??ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Noun

gift (plural gifts)

1. Something given to another voluntarily, without charge.
2. A talent or natural ability.

   • “ […] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

3. Something gained incidentally, without effort.
4. The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing.

Synonyms

• (something freely given by another): See Thesaurus:gift For beneficial actions, see favor.
• (something god-given): ability, aptitude, knack, talent, strength

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (gifuto)

Translations

See also

• lagniappe

Verb

gift (third-person singular simple present gifts, present participle gifting, simple past and past participle gifted)

1. (transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
2. (transitive) To give away, to concede easily.

Synonyms

• contribute
• donate
• give

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• T.G.I.F., TGIF

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ift/, [??ifd?]

Etymology 1

From German Gift (“poison”). Similar to the archaic gift (“gift”), a verbal noun to give (“to give”).

Noun

gift c (singular definite giften, plural indefinite gifte)

1. poison (substance harmful to a living organism)

Inflection

Derived terms

See also

• gift on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Etymology 2

Originally the past participle of gifte (“marry”).

Adjective

gift

1. married

Inflection

Derived terms

• ugift

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gift

1. imperative of gifte
2. past participle of gifte

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gifte, from Old Dutch *gift, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz. The words gif and vergif, both meaning "poison", derive from the same source as gift and gif were not formally distinguished until early modern Dutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ft/
• Hyphenation: gift
• Rhymes: -?ft

Noun

gift f (plural giften, diminutive giftje n)

1. donation; something given (away) voluntarily.

   Synonyms: geschenk, cadeau

Noun

gift n or f (plural giften, diminutive giftje n)

1. (dated) poison

   Synonyms: gif, venijn, vergif, vergift

Derived terms

• giftig
• grafgift

Adjective

gift (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) poisonous, toxic, venomous

   Synonym: giftig

Inflection

Related terms

• geven, gave
• vergiftigen, ontgiften, begiftigen

Faroese

Noun

gift f (genitive singular giftar, uncountable)

1. poison

Declension

Synonyms

• eitur

Adjective

gift

1. married, female form of giftur
   • Ert tú gift?

     Are you (f) married?

Declension

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gipt, from Proto-Germanic *giftiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /c?ft/
• Rhymes: -?ft

Noun

gift f (genitive singular giftar, nominative plural giftir)

1. (obsolete) gift

   Synonym: gjöf

Declension

Related terms

• gifta

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

gift f or m (definite singular gifta or giften, indefinite plural gifter, definite plural giftene)

1. poison (substance harmful to a living organism)

Derived terms

• giftslange
• giftstoff
• rottegift

Related terms

• forgifte
• forgiftning
• giftig

Adjective

gift (neuter singular gift, definite singular and plural gifte)

1. married

Antonyms

• ugift

Derived terms

• nygift

Verb

gift

1. imperative of gifte

References

• “gift” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?ft/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gipt.

Noun

gift f (definite singular gifta, indefinite plural gifter, definite plural giftene)

1. poison

Derived terms

• giftslange
• giftstoff
• rottegift

Etymology 2

Past participle of gifta.

Adjective

gift (indefinite singular gift, definite singular and plural gifte)

1. married

Participle

gift (definite singular and plural gifte)

1. past participle of gifta and gifte

Alternative forms

• gifta

Verb

gift

1. imperative of gifta and gifte
2. supine of gifta and gifte

References

• “gift” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• ?yft

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *giftiz. Cognate with Old Frisian jeft, Old Saxon *gift (in sundargift (“privilege”, literally “special gift”)), Dutch gift, Old High German gift (German Gift), Old Norse gipt (> English gift), Gothic ???????????????????????????????? (fragifts).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jift/

Noun

?ift f (nominative plural ?ifta)

1. Payment for a wife.
2. (in the plural) marriage, wedding

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ?ift, ?eft, gift (in part from Old Norse)
  • English: gift, yift

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From German Gift.

Noun

gift n

1. poison; venom; virus; toxin
   • 1968 Tove Jansson, Muminpappans memoarer, Holger Schildts Förlag (1991), ?ISBN, page 126:

     Rådd-djuret gråter, sade Joxaren förebrående. Spöket har målat en dödskalle på kaffeburken och skrivit GIFT under och nu är Rådd-djuret utom sig och säger att har det inte gift sig förut så kommer det nu absolut aldrig att göra det!

     "The Muddler is crying," said the Joxter reproachfully. "The ghost has painted a skull and crossbones and the word POISON on the Muddler's coffee tin, and now the Muddler is beside himself and says that if it has not gotten married before it will absolutely never do it!"

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Norse gipta (“give away in marriage”), from Proto-Germanic *giftiz.

Adjective

gift (not comparable)

1. married

   ett gift par

   a married couple

   Han är gift sedan tre år.

   He's been married for three years.

   • 1968 Tove Jansson, Muminpappans memoarer, Holger Schildts Förlag (1991), ?ISBN, page 126:

     Rådd-djuret gråter, sade Joxaren förebrående. Spöket har målat en dödskalle på kaffeburken och skrivit GIFT under och nu är Rådd-djuret utom sig och säger att har det inte gift sig förut så kommer det nu absolut aldrig att göra det!

     "The Muddler is crying," said the Joxter reproachfully. "The ghost has painted a skull and crossbones and the word POISON on the Muddler's coffee tin, and now the Muddler is beside himself and says that if it has not gotten married before it will absolutely never do it!"

Declension

Verb

gift

1. imperative of gifta.
2. past participle of gifta.
3. supine of gifta.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /t?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English tip, typ, tippe, probably from an unrecorded Old English *typpa, *typpe, from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppij? (“tip”), diminutive of *tuppaz (“top”).

Noun

tip (plural tips)

1. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil. [From 15th c.]
   • 1848, Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

     When he woke up, about half an hour after, he called it to him again, but Dash only looked sheepish and wagged the tip of his tail.

2. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration. [From 15th c.]

3. (music) The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
4. (chiefly in the plural) A small piece of meat.

   chicken tips over rice, pork tips, marinated alligator tips

   • 1998, Alan Morris, Between Earth and Sky (Guardians of the North book 4; ?ISBN:

     He dutifully speared a beef tip and chewed it with false gusto.

5. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
6. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
7. Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”)

Synonyms

• (extreme end of something): extremity

Hyponyms

• (extreme end of something): tooltip

Translations

Verb

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. (transitive) To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. [From 15th c.]
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V:

     I thinke he thinkes vpon the sauage bull: / Tush, feare not man, wee'll tip thy hornes with gold, / And all Europa shall reioyce at thee [...].

   • truncheon tipped with iron head

   • The furry nations harbour-tipt with jet, / Fair ermines spotless as the snows they press.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Late Middle English tippen, possibly from North Germanic/Scandinavian (compare Swedish tippa (“to topple over”)), or a special use of Etymology 1.

Verb

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. (ergative) (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn. [(transitive) From early 14th c.] [(intransitive) From earlier 16th c.]
2. (ergative) (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. [From 17th c.]
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two […]

3. (transitive, slang, dated) To drink. [From 18th c.]
4. (transitive) To dump (refuse). [From 19th c.]
5. (US, transitive) To pour a libation or a liquid from a container, particularly from a forty of malt liquor. [From 20th c.]
   • 1993, DRS, “Gangsta Lean (This Is For My Homies)”:

     I tip my 40 to your memory.

6. (transitive) To deflect with one?s fingers, especially one?s fingertips.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

tip (plural tips)

1. (skittles, obsolete) The knocking over of a skittle. [From 17th c.]
2. An act of tipping up or tilting. [From 19th c.]
3. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) An area or a place for dumping something, such as rubbish or refuse, as from a mine; a heap (see tipple); a dump. [From 19th c.]
   • 1972 May 18, Jon Tinker, Must we waste rubbish?, New Scientist, page 389,

     As the tip slowly squashes under its own weight, bacteria rot away the organic matter, mainly anaerobically with the generation of methane.

   • 2009, Donna Kelly, 'Don't dump on Hepburn's top tip', The Hepburn Advocate, Fairfax Digital

     When I was a kid I used to love going to the tip.

   • 2009, Rother District Council, Rother District Council Website

     There are two rubbish tips in Rother.

   • 2009, Beck Vass, 'Computer collectibles saved from the tip' The New Zealand Herald, Technology section, APN Holdings NZ Ltd

     Computer collectibles saved from the tip

4. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
5. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, by extension) A recycling centre.
6. (colloquial) A very untidy place. [From 20th c.]
7. The act of deflecting with one's fingers, especially the fingertips
8. A tram for expeditiously transferring coal.

Translations

Etymology 3

Of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Etymology 1 and cognate with Dutch tippen, German tippen, Swedish tippa.

Verb

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. (now rare) To hit quickly and lightly; to tap. [From later 15th c.]
   • 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected

     A third rogue tips me by the elbow.

Noun

tip (plural tips)

1. (now rare) A light blow or tap. [From later 16th c.]

Etymology 4

Originally thieves' slang, of uncertain origin; according to the OED, probably related to sense 1.

Verb

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. To give a small gratuity to, especially to an employee of someone who provides a service. [From early 18th c.]
2. (thieves? slang) To give, pass. [From early 17th c.]

Derived terms

• tipper
• tipping

Translations

Noun

tip (plural tips)

2. A gratuity; a small amount of money left for a bartender, waiter, taxi driver or other servant as a token of appreciation. [From mid-18th c.]
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

     A half crown tip put the deputy's knowledge at my disposal, and I learned that Mr. Bloxam [...] had left for his work at five o'clock that morning.

Descendants

• ? Korean: ? (tip)

Translations

Synonyms

• See gratuity

Etymology 5

Probably from to tip (“give, pass”) or to tip (“tap”), or a combination of the two.

Noun

tip (plural tips)

1. A piece of private or secret information, especially imparted by someone with expert knowledge about sporting odds, business performance etc. [From mid-19th c.]
2. A piece of advice.

Synonyms

• hint

Derived terms

Descendants

• German: Tipp

Translations

Verb

tip (third-person singular simple present tips, present participle tipping, simple past and past participle tipped)

1. To give a piece of private information to; to inform (someone) of a clue, secret knowledge, etc. [From later 19th c.]

Derived terms

• tip off

Translations

Translations

Etymology 6

Noun

tip (plural tips)

1. (African-American Vernacular) A kick or phase; one's current habits or behaviour.
2. (African-American Vernacular) A particular arena or sphere of interest; a front.

References

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tip.

Anagrams

• ITP, PIT, PTI, TPI, pit, tpi

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tip/
• Rhymes: -ip

Adjective

tip (feminine tipa, masculine plural tips, feminine plural tipes)

1. full, as in sated or satisfied (including to excess)

Noun

tip m (plural tips)

1. excess (of food or drink)

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English tip.

Noun

tip

1. tip (gratuity)
2. tip; tip-off

Verb

tip

1. to tip (give a small gratuity)
2. to tip off (inform someone confidentially)

Etymology 2

Ellipsis for English tip sheet.

Noun

tip

1. lottery tip sheet

Czech

Etymology

From English tip.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?p]
• Hyphenation: tip
• Rhymes: -?p
• Homophone: typ

Noun

tip m inan

1. tip, guess

Declension

Derived terms

• tipnout
• tipovat

Further reading

• tip in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tip in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?p/
• Hyphenation: tip
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tip, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tuppijô, *tuppij? (“tip”), a diminutive of *tuppaz.

Noun

tip m (plural tippen, diminutive tipje n)

1. tip, extreme end of something

   Synonyms: eind, einde, end, punt, uiteinde

Hyponyms

• piek
• top

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English tip.

Noun

tip m (plural tips, diminutive tipje n)

1. tip, small amount of money left for a waiter, taxi driver, etc. as a token of appreciation

   Synonym: fooi

2. tip, piece of good advice
3. hint, tip

See also

• hint

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

tip

1. first-person singular present indicative of tippen
2. imperative of tippen

Anagrams

• pit

Romanian

Etymology

French type, Latin typus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tip/

Noun

tip m (plural tipi, feminine equivalent tip?)

1. guy

Declension

Noun

tip n (plural tipuri)

1. prototype, model
2. type, style

Declension

Synonyms

• prototip (1)
• fel (2)

Sakizaya

Noun

tip

1. east

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (túpos, “mark, impression, type”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tî?p/

Noun

t?p m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. type
2. (colloquial) person (usually male), guy, bloke, dude

Declension

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tí?p/

Noun

t?p m inan

1. type

Inflection

Spanish

Etymology

From English tip

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tip/, [?t?ip]

Noun

tip m (plural tips)

1. tip (advice)

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tip]

Noun

tip (definite accusative tipi, plural tipler)

1. type
2. (colloquial) strange or peculiar person

Declension