lapar

• IPA^(key): /lapar/ [la.par]
• Rhymes: -apar, -ar
• Hyphenation: la‧par

lapar inan

1. (Biscayan, Navarro-Lapurdian) alternative form of lahar (“bramble”)

• “lapar”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “lapar”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• lampar

Attested since circa 1750. From Proto-Germanic *lapjaną (“to lick; lap”) (compare Middle English lappen, Old High German laffen, French lamper). Compare with lamber (“to lick”), which derives of Latin lambere (“lick”), or Sicilian allappari~allippari.

• IPA^(key): /laˈpaɾ/

lapar (first-person singular present lapo, first-person singular preterite lapei, past participle lapado)

1. to lick, to lap
2. to quaff, to swig
3. to slurp; to eat disorderly or compulsively
   • 1807, anonymous author, Segundo diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     é estou en que na quel dia / vos laparon todo aquelo / que non poideron vender / como quen vos toma a parva

     I have the idea that that day they slurped everything that couldn't sell, as if having a snack

4. (figurative) to rob

• larpar

• lapacaldos (“glutton”, literally “broth-lapper”)

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lapar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “lapar”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “lapar”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• “lapar” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “lapar”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

From Proto-Malayic *lapar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaʀ. Cognate with Old Javanese lapa.

• IPA^(key): /lapar/

lapar

1. hungry (affected by hunger; desirous of food)

   Synonym: beluran

   Lapar aku.

   I'm hungry.

Inherited from Malay lapar, from Proto-Malayic *lapar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaʀ.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈlapar/ [ˈla.par]
• Rhymes: -apar
• Syllabification: la‧par

lapar (comparative lebih lapar, superlative paling lapar)

1. hungry

   Saya lapar.

   I'm hungry

lapar (uncountable)

1. hunger

• haus

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lapaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “lapar” 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.

From Proto-Malayic *lapar, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lapaʀ. Cognate with Old Javanese lapa and Sundanese palay.

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈlapa(r)/ [ˈla.pa(r)]
  • Rhymes: -apa(r)

• (Baku) IPA^(key): /ˈlapar/ [ˈla.par]
  • Rhymes: -apar
• Hyphenation: la‧par

lapar (Jawi spelling لاڤر)

1. hungry (affected by hunger; desirous of food)

   Synonym: bulur

   Aku lapar.

   I'm hungry.

• Indonesian: lapar

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*lapaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• “lapar” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

lapar

1. present indicative of lapa