alap

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Borrowed from Sanskrit आलापा (ālāpā).

alap (plural alaps)

1. (music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 176:

     The alaap is the part of our classical music that I like best. It is an inward voyage, an odyssey into the unknown.

• Pala, lapa, pa'al, pala

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔa.l̪ap]
• Hyphenation: a‧lap

alap! (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜉ᜔)

1. cheers!

   Synonym: tagay

alap

1. wing

• 欧阳觉亚 (1985) “alap”, in 珞巴族語言简志:崩尼-博嘎尔语‎^[1], Beijing: 民族出版社, →OCLC, page 97

alap

1. wing

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔa.lɐp]
• Rhymes: -alap
• Syllabification: a‧lap

alap (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜩ᜴)

1. a stick used in dancing held by a dancer, usually thin, made out of wood, and about 70 centimetres long

• At ceremonial dances, one accepts the stick if they are ready to dance.

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 24

From al (“lower part”) +‎ -p (hypothetical nominal-forming suffix; obsolete). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlɒp]

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• Hyphenation: alap
• Rhymes: -ɒp

alap (plural alapok)

1. base, foundation
2. (figuratively, especially in the forms alapon and alapján) (on a…) basis, (on the) basis (of…), (on the) grounds (of…), (by the) token (of…), (as a) matter (of…), (by) reason (of…), (at a/the/that) rate (that…)

• alap in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• alap in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

alap

1. romanization of ꦲꦭꦥ꧀

• IPA^(key): /alap/
• Rhymes: -alap, -lap, -ap

From Proto-Malayic *alap, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (alap) in inflected form maṅalap (current spelling mengalap).

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)

1. (colloquial, Kedah Malay) to gather a fruit using pole (that attached with knife or hook).
2. (obsolete) to take.

• delapan, lapan
• mengalap
• alap-alap

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)

1. slowly, calmly
2. (colloquial) quite and gentle.
3. unhurried
4. within long intervals

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “الڤ alap”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 17
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “الڤ alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 31
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 17

• “alap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

• IPA^(key): /aɭap/
• Hyphenation: a‧lap

alap

1. to catch

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

alap

1. to take
2. to fetch
3. to carry off
4. to steal
5. to seize
6. to win

• Javanese: ꦲꦭꦥ꧀ (alap)

• "alap" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔaː.lɐp̚]
• Rhymes: -alap
• Syllabification: a‧lap

alap (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜉ᜔)

1. shift; turn (in a work or assignment)

   Synonyms: turno, halili, halang

2. selective cutting or harvesting (of grass, rice, corn, fruits, etc.)

   Synonym: gamas

3. recruitment (of laborers)

   Synonym: kalap

4. enlistment (into the army or navy)

   Synonym: kalap

5. scum

   Synonyms: eskoma, linab

6. act of scooping out the scum (on the liquid surface)

   Synonyms: sagap, salap

• “alap”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• pala-, alpa, pala, lapa