lappen

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑ.pə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: lap‧pen
• Rhymes: -ɑpən

From Middle Dutch lappen. Equivalent to lap +‎ -en.

lappen

1. (transitive) to piece up, to patch, to repair
2. (transitive) to patch up, to repair with patches
3. (transitive) to raise (money)
4. (transitive) to pay up, to put in extra money
5. (transitive) to clean with a shammy
6. (transitive) to play (a trick) (with indirect object)

   Hij heeft hun een ellendige streek gelapt.

   He played an awful prank on them.

• aan zijn laars lappen
• lapmiddel
• oplappen

• Afrikaans: lap
• Berbice Creole Dutch: lapu
• Negerhollands: lap
• → Papiamentu: lapi, lappi
• → Sranan Tongo: laplapu, lappu
  • → Kari'na: rapumary

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lappen

1. plural of lap

• wlappen

Alteration of earlier Middle English wlappen (“to wrap, fold”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian, *wlæppian, from Proto-Germanic *wrappan-, *wlappan- (“to wrap, fold”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”). Akin to Middle English wrappen (“to wrap”), Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap”) (from Germanic). More at envelop, develop.

lappen

1. to wrap, fold

• English: lap

lappen m

1. definite singular of lapp

lappen m

1. definite singular of lapp

lappen

1. definite singular of lapp

• papeln