different between hap vs halp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), from Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hamp? (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”). Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Old English ?ehæp (“fit, convenient”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (kob?, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).

The verb is from Middle English happen, from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijan? (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).

Noun

hap (plural haps)

1. (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on.
2. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event; chance; fortune; luck.

Synonyms

• (happenings): affairs; see also Thesaurus:occurrence
• (an unexpected, random, chance, or fortuitous event): hazard, serendipity; see also Thesaurus:luck

Derived terms

See also

• what's the haps

Verb

hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)

1. (intransitive, literary) To happen; to befall; to chance.

   Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire; see also Thesaurus:happen
2. (transitive, literary) To happen to.

Etymology 2

From Old English hap.

Noun

hap (plural haps)

1. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small or folded blanket placed on the end of a bed to keep feet warm.

Verb

hap (third-person singular simple present haps, present participle happing, simple past and past participle happed)

1. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
   • 1859, John Brown, Rab and his Friends

     The surgeon happed her up carefully.

Etymology 3

Shortening of Haplochromis

Noun

hap (plural haps)

1. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

Anagrams

• AHP, PAH, PHA, pah

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skapa, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, split, dig”). Compare English shape, German schaffen (“make, create”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”). Compare Low German apen, Icelandic opna, Norwegian åpne (“to open”), English open.

Verb

hap (first-person singular past tense hapa, participle hapur)

1. to open

   Synonym: çel

Conjugation

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

hap m (plural happen, diminutive hapje n)

1. (often diminutive) bite

2. chunk
3. (often diminutive) snack, light meal

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

hap

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

Irish

Alternative forms

• hop

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Noun

hap m (genitive singular hap, nominative plural hapanna)

1. hop
2. blow

Declension

Further reading

• "hap" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “hap” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• happe, hape, heppe

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse happ.

Noun

hap (plural happes)

1. luck (whether good or bad)

Descendants

• English: hap
• Yola: hap

References

• “hap, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Romanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (hap), from Arabic ????? (?abb, “grains, seeds, pills”).

Noun

hap n (plural hapuri)

1. pill (medicine)

Declension

Seri

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p/

Noun

hap (plural hap)

1. deer

Synonyms

• ziix heecot quiih

Derived terms

• hap itaamalca quih an ihatoaasxaj
• hap itapxeen
• hap oaacajam
• ipnaail

References

• Moser, Mary B.; Marlett, Stephen A. (2010) Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricaana iitom [Seri-Spanish-English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Hermosillo: Plaza y Valdés Editores, ?ISBN, page 334.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English half.

Noun

hap

1. half
2. part
3. place, one of a few places

Adverb

hap

1. there

Derived terms

• hap sankamap

Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (?abb, “grains, seeds, pills”).

Noun

hap (definite accusative hab?, plural haplar)

1. pill

Declension

Descendants

• Greek: ???? (chápi, “pill”)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hap.

Noun

hap

1. chance, look

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hælp/, /h??lp/

Verb

halp (third-person singular simple present halps, present participle halping, simple past and past participle halped)

1. (nonstandard, humorous) Alternative spelling of help
2. (obsolete) Alternative form of holp (“helped”)

   • Thus halp him God.

Usage notes

• The modern form is generally used only as an imperative ("Halp!"). The other forms are more rare. On the internet often associated with lolcats.
• In Internet slang, the verb may describe action that was intended to be helpful, but in reality is counterproductive or not useful: "Stop halping!"

Anagrams

• Pahl, phal

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Middle High German halp, from Old High German halp, from Proto-West Germanic *halb, from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”). Cognate with German halb, English half.

Adjective

halp (not comparable)

1. (Sette Comuni) half

Declension

References

• “halp” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Irish

Noun

halp m

1. h-prothesized form of alp

Verb

halp m

1. h-prothesized form of alp

Old Norse

Verb

halp

1. third-person singular past indicative active of hjalpa

Swedish

Verb

halp

1. (archaic) past tense of hjälpa.