different between lep vs nep

English

Etymology

Short for Lepidoptera.

Noun

lep (plural leps)

1. A butterfly or moth.

Anagrams

• 'elp, -ple, EPL, LPE, pel

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *läpp? (“roof, cover”). Cognate with Udmurt ?????? (lipyny, “covering, roof”) and Lule Sami liehpa/liehppa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?l?p]
• Rhymes: -?p

Verb

lep

1. (literary or archaic) to cover

   Synonyms: borít, fed, takar

Usage notes

This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:

• lep (…) be, be … lep ? belep
• lep (…) el, el … lep ? ellep
• lep (…) meg, meg … lep ? meglep

Conjugation

Derived terms

• lepel

(With verbal prefixes):

References

Further reading

• lep in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Luo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??p/

Noun

lep

1. tongue

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

lep

1. (non-standard since 1938) present tense of lepja
2. (non-standard since 1938) imperative of lepja

Anagrams

• pel

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l??p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?p/

Noun

lep m inan

1. flypaper (“a strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it”)

Declension

Related terms

• (adjectives) lepki, lepowy
• (noun) lepiszcze
• (verb) lepi?

Noun

lep f

1. genitive plural of lepa

Verb

lep

1. second-person singular imperative of lepi?

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian): lij?p
• (Ikavian): lip

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lê?p/

Adjective

l?p (definite l?p?, comparative l?pš?, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. nice, pretty

Declension

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *l?p?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lé?p/

Adjective

l??p (comparative l??pši, superlative n?jl??pši)

1. beautiful; handsome

   Antonym: g?d

2. nice

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• lepóten
• lepóta
• lepótec / lepotíca
• l??pšati

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lé?p/

Noun

l??p m inan

1. (archaic) glue

   Synonym: lepílo

Inflection

Further reading

• “lep”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish leppä.

Noun

lep

1. alder

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [lep]

Noun

lep (nominative plural leps)

1. (male or female) ape
2. (male or female) monkey

Declension

Derived terms

• lepik

Related terms

• lif
• lifav
• sügaf
• süganim
• süganimav
• nim
• nimav

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?p/
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”).

Alternative forms

• nip (dialectal)

Noun

nep (usually uncountable, plural neps)

1. Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio 2007, p. 201:

     Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

Etymology 2

Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (“top, knop, summit”) and Old Norse knappr (“knob”), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (“knob”), from Proto-Indo-European *gneb?- (“to press, tighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball”). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (“button”). Related to knob.

Noun

nep (plural neps)

1. (Britain, dialect) A knot in a fibre of cotton.

Anagrams

• PEN, PNe, Pen, pen

Ainu

Etymology

From ne (“interrogatory root”) +? p (“thing”). See nekon, nen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ne?p]

Pronoun

nep (Kana spelling ???)

1. (interrogative) what

Usage notes

Less common in spoken language than hemanta.

Synonyms

• hemanta

See also

Dutch

Etymology

From German Nepp.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

nep m (uncountable)

1. imitation, fake

Adjective

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)

1. fake, not real
2. artificial, not natural

Inflection

Some Dutch speakers may consider attributive use of this adjective informal. Thus, the inflected form neppe is not very commonly used in more formal language. In such language, the word is used more often in compounds formed by prefixing with nep-. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

Synonyms

• namaak

Antonyms

• authentiek
• echt
• natuurlijk

Derived terms

• nepneutraliteit
• nepnieuws
• nepperd
• nepvlees

Anagrams

• pen

Middle English

Noun

nep

1. Alternative form of nap (“drinking bowl”)