kop

From Afrikaans kop, from Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop.

kop (plural kops)

1. (South Africa) A hill or mountain.
   • 2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN:

     […] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.

   • 2014, Colin D. Heaton, Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler, Casemate, →ISBN:

     Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere.
     The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]

   • 2019, Christiaan Rudolf De Wet, Three Years' War, Good Press:

     A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek.

• koppie

kop (plural kops)

1. Rare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).
   • 1917, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Proceedings, page 134:

     The solerets are wide-toed, […] ; the wings of the elbow and knee-kops small. The inner bends of the elbow joints are furnished with a pliable protection of numerous very narrow plates.

   • 1994, Archaeologia Cambrensis:

     1. Elbow Kop with rope-cable border.
     2. Part of left Pauldron (shoulder piece) with similar border.

From Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.

• IPA^(key): /kɔp/

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kop (plural koppe, diminutive koppie)

1. head
2. mountain, summit, peak

• → English: kop

• IPA^(key): [ˈkop]

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• Hyphenation: kop

Deverbal from kopat, kopnout.

kop m inan

1. kick

   přímý kop ― free kick

   trestný kop ― penalty kick

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kop

1. second-person singular imperative of kopit

• “kop”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “kop”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “kop”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Old Norse koppr, from Middle Low German kop, from Latin cuppa.

• IPA^(key): /kop/, [kʰʌb̥]

kop c (singular definite koppen, plural indefinite kopper)

1. A cup; A concave vessel for holding liquid, generally adorned with either a handle or a stem (confer goblet, glass.)

   ... kop.

   Pour the wine into the cup.

• IPA^(key): /kɔp/

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• Hyphenation: kop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

From Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa.

kop m (plural koppen, diminutive kopje n)

1. cup (for drinking)

   Synonyms: mok, tas

   Nog een kopje thee? ― Another cup of tea?

2. (for animals, colloquial and derogatory for humans) head

   Synonym: hoofd

   Buldogs hebben een angstaanjagende kop. ― Bulldogs have a scary head.

   Hou je kop! ― Shut your hole!

3. (colloquial, by extension) a (male) human

   Wat een kwaaie kop! ― What an angry guy!

4. head of a nail, pin etc.

   Je slaat de spijker op de kop. ― You hit the nail on the head.

5. front, lead, e.g. in a race; charge, control

   De underdog ligt op kop. ― The underdog is in the lead.

6. heading (of a text), headline
7. heads (side of a coin)

   Synonym: kruis

   Antonym: munt

8. pegbox (part of a stringed instrument that holds the tuning pegs)
9. one head's height

   Hij is een kop groter dan ik. ― He is a head taller than me.

It is considered impolite to refer to someone's head with kop. That word normally only refers to the head of animals, although for horses, which are considered noble animals, hoofd is generally used.

• Afrikaans: kop
• Negerhollands: kop, koppi, kopi, kopje
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: kop (dated)
• Petjo: kop
• Skepi Creole Dutch: kup
• → Caribbean Javanese: kop
• → Indonesian: kop
• → Papiamentu: kòpi, koppi (from the diminutive, dated)
• → Sranan Tongo: kopi, kopki
  • → Kari'na: kopuma

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kop

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

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /ˈkop/, [ˈko̞p]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification^(key): kop
• Hyphenation^(key): kop

kop

1. (onomatopoeia, usually repeated) knock

• “kop”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

From Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop, probably from Late Latin cuppa. Cognate to Afrikaans kop.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkop/ [ˈkɔp̚]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification: kop

kop (plural kop-kop)

1. heading (of a text), headline
2. handset
3. cup

• “kop” 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: kop

Deverbal from kopać.

kop m animal

1. kick (hit or strike with the leg, foot, or knee)

   Synonyms: kopniak, kopnięcie

2. (colloquial) kick (sudden surge of energy to help perform some action)
3. (colloquial) kick (strong reaction of the body occurring after taking psychoactive drugs)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kop f

1. genitive plural of kopa

   Synonym: kóp

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kop

1. second-person singular imperative of kopać

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kop

1. second-person singular imperative of kopić

• kop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• IPA^(key): [kɔp]

kop

1. second-person singular imperative of kopať

Back-formation from kopati.

• IPA^(key): /kóːp/

kọ̑p m inan

1. hoe (tool)

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• “kop”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

From Proto-Finnic *kooppa. Cognates include Finnish kuoppa.

kop

1. pit, hole in the ground

Inflection of kop (inflection type 6/kuva)
nominative sing.	kop
genitive sing.	kopan
partitive sing.	kopad
partitive plur.	kopid
	singular	plural
nominative	kop	kopad
accusative	kopan	kopad
genitive	kopan	kopiden
partitive	kopad	kopid
essive-instructive	kopan	kopin
translative	kopaks	kopikš
inessive	kopas	kopiš
elative	kopaspäi	kopišpäi
illative	kopaha	kopihe
adessive	kopal	kopil
ablative	kopalpäi	kopilpäi
allative	kopale	kopile
abessive	kopata	kopita
comitative	kopanke	kopidenke
prolative	kopadme	kopidme
approximative I	kopanno	kopidenno
approximative II	kopannoks	kopidennoks
egressive	kopannopäi	kopidennopäi
terminative I	kopahasai	kopihesai
terminative II	kopalesai	kopilesai
terminative III	kopassai	—
additive I	kopahapäi	kopihepäi
additive II	kopalepäi	kopilepäi

From Old Frisian kopp, from Proto-West Germanic *kopp. Compare Dutch kop, German Kopf.

kop c (plural koppen, diminutive kopke)

1. cup
2. head

   Synonym: holle

• “kop (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
• “kop (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011