different between harp vs halp

English

Etymology

From Middle English harpe, from Old English hearpe (“harp”), from Proto-West Germanic *harp?, from Proto-Germanic *harp? (“harp”). Cognate with Scots hairp (“harp”), West Frisian harpe, harp (“harp”), Low German Harp (“harp”), Dutch harp (“harp”), German Harfe (“harp”), Danish harpe (“harp”), Swedish harpa (“harp”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h??p/
• Rhymes: -??(r)p

Noun

harp (plural harps)

1. (music) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body
   1. Any instrument of the same musicological type.
2. (colloquial) A harmonica.
3. (Scotland) A grain sieve.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• harp seal

Translations

See also

• lyre

References

• 2013. The Physics of Musical Instruments. Neville H. Fletcher, Thomas Rossing. Pg. 331.

Verb

harp (third-person singular simple present harps, present participle harping, simple past and past participle harped)

1. (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject.

   (US)

   (UK)

2. (transitive) To play on (a harp or similar instrument)
3. (transitive) To play (a tune) on the harp.
4. (transitive, archaic) To develop or give expression to by skill and art; to sound forth as from a harp; to hit upon.

Synonyms

• keep on about
• perseverate

Translations

Anagrams

• PHAR

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch harpe, from Old Dutch *harpa, from Proto-Germanic *harp?.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rp
• IPA^(key): /??rp/

Noun

harp f or m (plural harpen, diminutive harpje n)

1. harp

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (harb), borrowed from Arabic ?????? (?arb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?rp/

Noun

harp (definite accusative harb?, plural harplar)

1. (dated) war

   Synonyms: sava?, cenk

Derived terms

• Büyük Harp
• Cihan Harbi

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (?arf).

Noun

harp (definite accusative harpy, plural harplar)

1. letter (of an alphabet)

Declension

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.