different between laps vs waps

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?ps, IPA^(key): /læps/
• Homophones: lapse, Lapps
• Rhymes: -æps

Noun

laps

1. plural of lap

Verb

laps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lap

Anagrams

• ALPs, APLS, APLs, ASPL, Alps, PALS, PALs, PLAs, Pals, Plas, SPLA, alps, pals, salp, slap

Albanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin lapis.

Noun

laps m (indefinite plural lapsa, definite singular lapsi, definite plural lapsat)

1. pencil

Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *lapitja, close to Greek ??????? (laparós, “weak”), ?????? (lapázo, “to weaken”).

Verb

laps (first-person singular past tense lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. to wear out, tire

Etymology 3

From Proto-Albanian *laubitja, from Proto-Indo-European *lewb?-, related to Lasgerdi ??????? (lúbhyati, “to wish”), Proto-Slavic *l'ubiti (“to love”). Ultimately a doublet of lyp.

Verb

laps (first-person singular past tense lapsa, participle lapsur)

1. to wish, want

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laps/, [l?b?s]

Noun

laps c (singular definite lapsen, plural indefinite lapse)

1. fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)
2. a shabby man [from 1990]

Inflection

Derived terms

• lapset ("foppish", "shabby")

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognate with Finnish lapsi.

Noun

laps (genitive lapse, partitive last)

1. child
2. someone's child

Declension

Derived terms

• lapsik
• esiklaps
• lastehaigla

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laps/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lapsus (“fall”). Doublet of lapsus.

Noun

laps m (plural laps)

1. lapse

Derived terms

• laps de temps

Etymology 2

From Latin lapsus (“fallen”)

Adjective

laps (invariable)

1. (archaic) apostate of Catholicism

Derived terms

• laps et relaps

Further reading

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

English

Etymology 1

Noun

waps

1. plural of wap

Verb

waps

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of wap

Etymology 2

Noun

waps (plural wapses)

1. (Britain, rural dialect) wasp

Anagrams

• APWs, AWPs, WASP, WSPA, paws, spaw, swap, wasp

Middle English

Noun

waps

1. Alternative form of wasp

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *waps, from Proto-Germanic *waps?.

Noun

waps c (plural wapsen, diminutive wapske)

1. wasp

Further reading

• “waps (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011