dop

dop

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lukpa.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lukpa terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɒp/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɑp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

From Middle English doppe, from Old English *doppa (“dipper”) (compare dīepan), as in Old English dūfedoppa (“pelican”).

dop (plural dops)

1. A diving bird.

From Middle English doppen, from Old English *doppian (“to dip, dive, plunge”), related to Old English doppettan (“to dip, dip in, immerse”).

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)

1. (South Africa, slang) To fail or to plug (an examination, standard or grade)

   I dopped my exams.

2. To dip or duck.
   • 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:

     you may dape or dop, and also with a grasshopper, behind a tree, or in any deep hole; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if it were alive, and still keeping yourself out of sight

   • 1693, [Thomas] d’Urfey, The Richmond Heiress: Or, A Woman Once in the Right. A Comedy, […], London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 14:

     Then at the Play-Houſe ye ogle the Boxes, and dop and bovv to thoſe you do not knovv, as vvell as thoſe you do.

From Dutch dop, from Middle Dutch dop, dup, doppe, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, shell, bowl”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dop (“shell, pod, bowl”), German Topf (“pot”).

• dopp

dop (plural dops)

1. (South Africa, slang). A drink.

   Let's go to the bar for a dop.

2. (South Africa, slang) An imprecise measure of alcohol; a dash.

   Give me a dop of brandy.

3. (obsolete) A dip; a low courtesy.
   • 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:

     The Venetian dop this

4. (diamond-cutting) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

• (cup in which diamond is cut): doop

dop (third-person singular simple present dops, present participle dopping, simple past and past participle dopped)

1. (South Africa, slang) To drink alcohol.
   • 2004, Patrick Stevens, Politics is the Greatest Game, page 170:

     They not only forswore dopping themselves, but also contrived to make the National Party forgo a dop.

• dop kit

• -pod, DPO, ODP, PDO, PO'd, POD, po'd, pod, pod-

• IPA^(key): /dɔp/

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• Hyphenation: dop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

From Middle Dutch doppe, dup, from Old Dutch *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-West Germanic *dopp, *dupp, from Proto-Germanic *duppaz (“hollow, well, bowl”). Cognate with German Topf (“pot”).

dop m (plural doppen, diminutive dopje n)

1. a shell (of an egg or a fruit for example)

   Beter een half ei dan een hele dop. - Better half an egg than a whole (empty) shell.

2. a hemispherical container such as a thimble
3. a bottle cap

   Synonym: flessendop

4. (chiefly in the plural) an eyelid

   Kijk uit je doppen! - Look out!

5. (Belgium, uncountable) the dole, unemployment benefit

• Petjo: dop
• → Indonesian: dop
• → Papiamentu: dòpi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dop

1. inflection of doppen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• “dop” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from Italian dopo.

• IPA^(key): /dop/, /dɔp/

dop

1. behind, after (in place), back of

   L'automobilo esas dop la parieto.

   The car is behind the wall.

• avan

From Dutch dop.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɔp]
• Hyphenation: dop

dop (plural dop-dop)

1. a cap of axis
2. an arc lamp

• “dop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Transylvanian Saxon Dop (“stopper”).

dop n (plural dopuri)

1. cork (of a bottle), stopper

   Synonym: (popular) astupuș

• îndopa

• “dop”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From Middle Low German dōpe, from Old Saxon dōpi, from Proto-West Germanic *daupīni, from Proto-Germanic *daupīniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-. Doublet of doppa and djup.

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• IPA^(key): /duːp/

dop n

1. baptism, christening

• döpa

• dop in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• dop in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)