different between scarf vs lappa

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sk??f/
• (US) IPA^(key): /sk???f/
• Rhymes: -??(?)f

Etymology 1

Probably from Old Northern French escarpe (compare Old French escharpe (“pilgrim's purse suspended from the neck”)). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of scrip.

Noun

scarf (plural scarves or scarfs)

1. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
2. A headscarf.
3. (dated) A neckcloth or cravat.

Derived terms

• infinity scarf
• Möbius scarf

Descendants

• ? Welsh: sgarff

Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 2:

     My sea-gown scarfed about me.

2. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old Norse skarfr, derivative of skera (“to cut”).

Noun

scarf (plural scarfs)

1. A type of joint in woodworking.
2. A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
3. A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.

Synonyms

• muffler

Translations

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. To shape by grinding.
2. To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, forming a "V" groove for welding adjacent metal plates, metal rods, etc.
3. To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.

Etymology 3

Generally thought to be a variant, attested since the 1950s, of scoff (“eat (quickly)”) (of which scorf is another attested variant), itself a variant of scaff. Sometimes alternatively suggested to be a dialectal survival of Old English scearfian, sceorfan (“gnaw, bite”) (compare scurf).

Verb

scarf (third-person singular simple present scarfs, present participle scarfing, simple past and past participle scarfed)

1. (transitive, US, slang) To eat very quickly.

   Synonym: (UK) scoff

Derived terms

• scarf down

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old Norse skarfr.

Noun

scarf (plural scarfs)

1. (Scotland) A cormorant.

References

• scarf in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• carfs, fracs

Old High German

Alternative forms

• scarph

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, whence also Old Saxon skarp, Old English scearp, Old Norse skarpr. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-, from *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Adjective

scarf

1. sharp

Descendants

• Middle High German: scharpf
  • Alemannic German: scharpf
  • Bavarian: scharf
  • Central Franconian: schärp, scharp
  • German: scharf
  • Hunsrik: schaaref
  • Luxembourgish: schaarf
  • Yiddish: ?????? (sharf)

English

Noun

lappa (plural lappas)

1. An African waist scarf.
   • 1982, Claire Polakoff, African Textiles and Dyeing Techniques, Routledge, ?ISBN, page 224,

     Asi clutched her child to her, then wrapped the lifeless body in the lappa which was her own skirt.

   • 1997, Nana Akua Kyerewaa Opokuwaa, Akan Protocol: Remembering the Traditions of Our Ancestors, 2005 iUniverse edition [self-published], ?ISBN, page 69,

     In the colder climates of the Diaspora, women wear leotards, tights or exercise pants under the slip lappa to keep the body warm.

   • 1998, Love P. Maya, Off the Village Mat: A Novel, 2003 WRITERSWORLD edition [self-published?], ?ISBN, page 56,

     The lappa was tied over a white short-sleeved lace blouse.

Anagrams

• appal, papal

Buginese

Noun

lappa (lontara ??)

1. joint

Icelandic

Verb

lappa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lappaði, supine lappað)

1. to patch, to mend

Conjugation

Ingrian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lap?a/

Noun

lappa (genitive lapan, partitive lappaa)

1. buckle

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Italian

Etymology

From Latin lappa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?lap.pa/
• Rhymes: -appa

Noun

lappa f (plural lappe)

1. burdock

Verb

lappa

1. third-person singular present indicative of lappare
2. second-person singular imperative of lappare

References

• “Arctium lappa L.”, in Portale della Flora d'Italia / Portal to the Flora of Italy?^[2] (in Italian), 2021

Latin

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”) – to which labium and lamb? –, Proto-Slavic *lop?n? (“burdock”) is also suggestive.

Noun

lappa f (genitive lappae); first declension

1. burdock

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

• lapp?ceus

References

• lappa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• lappa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• lappa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• lappa in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “lappa” in volume 7, part 2, column 953, line 45 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present