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sop
English
Alternative forms
- soppe (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *s?pan? (“to sup”). More at sup; compare soup.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
sop (plural sops)
- Something entirely soaked.
- A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
- Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
- 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:
- The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.
- That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing.
- 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:
- A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
- (Appalachia) Gravy.
- (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
- A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
Derived terms
- sippet
Translations
Verb
sop (third-person singular simple present sops, present participle sopping, simple past and past participle sopped)
- (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
- (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
Derived terms
- sop up
Translations
Anagrams
- OPS, OPS+, OPs, POS, POs, PSO, ops, pos
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sop (“soup”), from Old Dutch *sop, from Proto-Germanic *supp?. In the sense “water with soap” it is a shortening of zeepsop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?p/
- Hyphenation: sop
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopje n)
- water with soap, usually for washing
- the sea in terms of somebody who will sail on it
- (now dialectal) Archaic form of soep.
Derived terms
- afwassop
- in zijn eigen sop gaar laten koken
- soppen
- zeepsop
Descendants
- Afrikaans: sop
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch sop
Noun
sop (first-person possessive sopku, second-person possessive sopmu, third-person possessive sopnya)
- soup
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish sop(p), from Latin stuppa (“coarse flax, tow”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??p?/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /s?ap?/ (as if spelled sap)
Noun
sop m (genitive singular soip, nominative plural soip)
- wisp, small bundle (of straw, etc.)
- straw bedding; (straw) bed
Declension
Derived terms
Verb
sop (present analytic sopann, future analytic sopfaidh, verbal noun sopadh, past participle soptha)
- (transitive) light with straw
Conjugation
Mutation
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “sop”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- "sop" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “sop” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “sop” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Middle English
Noun
sop
- small amount of food
- c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman
- And if he soupeth, eteth but a sop
- c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English soap.
Noun
sop
- cleaner
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopke)
- juice
- soup
Derived terms
- sinesappelsop
Further reading
- “sop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
West Uvean
Etymology
From English soap.
Noun
sop
- soap
References
- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, ?ISBN
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qop
English
Noun
qop
- Alternative spelling of qoph
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