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sap
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sæp/
- Rhymes: -æp
Etymology 1
From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-Germanic *sap? (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian ?????? (sópli, “snivel”), Armenian ??? (ham, “juice, taste”), Avestan ????????-????????????????? (vi-š?pa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit ???? (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage.
Noun
sap (countable and uncountable, plural saps)
- (uncountable) The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
- (uncountable) The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
- Any juice.
- (figuratively) Vitality.
- (slang, countable) A naive person; a simpleton
- Synonyms: milksop, saphead
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)
- (transitive) To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.).
- (transitive, figuratively) To exhaust the vitality of.
Etymology 2
Probably from sapling.
Noun
sap (plural saps)
- (countable, US, slang) A short wooden club; a leather-covered hand weapon; a blackjack.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops and Eddie Mars' gang. I dodge bullets and eat saps.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
Translations
Verb
sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)
- (transitive, slang) To strike with a sap (with a blackjack).
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
- [A]s he passes the mouth of a narrow alley two men step out quickly. One of them saps Marlowe expertly -- they drag him out of sight.
- 1944, William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman, The Big Sleep (screenplay)
Translations
Etymology 3
From French saper (compare Spanish zapar and Italian zappare) from sape (“sort of scythe”), from Late Latin sappa (“sort of mattock”).
Noun
sap (plural saps)
- (military) A narrow ditch or trench made from the foremost parallel toward the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc.
Derived terms
- sap fagot
- sap roller
- sapper
Translations
Verb
sap (third-person singular simple present saps, present participle sapping, simple past and past participle sapped)
- (transitive) To subvert by digging or wearing away; to mine; to undermine; to destroy the foundation of.
- (transitive, military) To pierce with saps.
- (transitive) To make unstable or infirm; to unsettle; to weaken.
- 1850, Alfred Tennyson, Ring, Out, Wild Bells
- Ring out the grief that saps the mind […]
- 1850, Alfred Tennyson, Ring, Out, Wild Bells
- (transitive) To gradually weaken.
- (intransitive) To proceed by mining, or by secretly undermining; to execute saps.
Translations
Anagrams
- APS, APs, ASP, PAS, PAs, PSA, Pas, Psa., SPA, Spa, asp, pas, spa
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- sapu, tsap, tsapu
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *sapp?, from Latin sappa. Compare Romanian s?pa, sap, French saper, Italian zappare, Sicilian zappari, Spanish zapar, Friulian sapâ, Venetian sapar, Latin sappa.
Verb
sap (past participle sãpatã)
- I dig (with a pick).
Related terms
- sãpari / sãpare
- sãpat
- sapã
- sãpãtor
- sãpãturã
See also
- tãrchescu
- arãm
Catalan
Alternative forms
- sab (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sap/
- Rhymes: -ap
Verb
sap
- third-person singular present indicative form of saber
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sap, from Old Dutch *sap, from Proto-Germanic *sap?. Cognate to English sap and German Saft (from Old High German saf).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?p/
- Hyphenation: sap
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
sap n (plural sappen, diminutive sapje n)
- sap (fluid in plants)
- juice
- Hyponyms: aalbessensap, appelsap, citroensap, druivensap, sinaasappelsap, vruchtensap
Derived terms
- aalbessensap
- appelsap
- appelsiensap
- bessensap
- bietensap
- boomsap
- citroensap
- druivensap
- maagsap
- perensap
- sappig
- sinaasappelsap
- vruchtensap
- wortelsap
- zwartebessensap
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sap
References
Anagrams
- pas
Kholosi
Etymology
From Sanskrit ???? (sarpa).
Noun
sap ?
- snake
References
- Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?[1], pages 13-36
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sap/
Verb
sap
- second-person singular imperative of sapa?
Romani
Etymology
From Sanskrit ???? (sarpá, “snake”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *sarpás. Cognate with Punjabi ??? (sappa, “snake”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sap m (plural sapa)
- snake
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sap]
Verb
sap
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of s?pa
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish ???? (sap, “handle; stalk; hair”), from Old Turkic sap? (sap), from Proto-Turkic [Term?].
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?p/
Noun
sap (definite accusative sap?, plural saplar)
- handle
- stem, stalk
- (slang) penis
Declension
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *sappi.
Noun
sap
- gall (bile)
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sapi? (“I am wise”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??p/
Noun
sap
- wisdom
Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /?a?p??/
- Tone numbers: sap7
- Hyphenation: sap
Etymology 1
From Proto-Tai *sa?p? (“cockroach”). Cognate with Thai ??? (sàap), Lao ??? (s?p), Shan ????? (sàap), Bouyei saabt.
Noun
sap (Sawndip form ????, old orthography sap)
- cockroach
Etymology 2
Verb
sap (old orthography sap)
- to wear shoes with the heels stepping down on the back of the shoes
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sab
English
Etymology
Short for sabotage.
Verb
sab (third-person singular simple present sabs, present participle sabbing, simple past and past participle sabbed)
- (informal) To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports.
Noun
sab (plural sabs)
- (informal) A saboteur, especially of fox hunts.
Anagrams
- ABS, ABs, Abs, B. A. S., B.A.S., B.A.s, BAS, BAs, BSA, SBA, abs, abs-, abs., bas
Catalan
Verb
sab
- Obsolete form of sap.
Cornish
Noun
sab f (singulative saben)
- pines
Synonyms
- pin
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French sable (“sand”)
Noun
sab
- sand
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ???????? (?a??ba). Compare Moroccan Arabic ???? (??b).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sa?p/
Verb
sab (imperfect jsib, past participle misjub)
- to find
- to find (something) useful
- to catch
- to look for
- to find out, to realise
Conjugation
Scots
Noun
sab (plural sabs)
- sob
Verb
sab
- sob
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