lepel

From Middle Dutch lēpel, from Old Dutch *lepil, from Proto-West Germanic *lapil. Equivalent to leppen +‎ -el.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleː.pəl/

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• Hyphenation: le‧pel
• Rhymes: -eːpəl

lepel m (plural lepels, diminutive lepeltje n)

1. spoon

• Afrikaans: lepel
• Berbice Creole Dutch: leple
• Jersey Dutch: lêpel
• Negerhollands: leepel, leppu
• Skepi Creole Dutch: lepel
• → Lokono: lepele

Uncertain derivation. Either from the Old Hungarian noun lep (“blanket, bedsheet”) or from the verb lep (“to cover”) +‎ -el (verb-forming suffix).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɛpɛl]
• Hyphenation: le‧pel
• Rhymes: -ɛl

lepel (plural leplek)

1. wrap, sheet, shroud, veil (a thin fabric used to cover something)
2. (figuratively) cover (that which conceals; a disguise or pretext)

   a sötétség leple alatt ― under cover of darkness

3. (literary) a burial shroud

   Synonyms: halotti lepel, szemfedő

4. (botany) perigone

• lepel 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.

From Old Dutch *lepil, from Proto-West Germanic *lapil.

lēpel m or n

1. spoon

• Dutch: lepel
  • Afrikaans: lepel
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: leple
  • Jersey Dutch: lêpel
  • Negerhollands: leepel, leppu
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: lepel
  • → Lokono: lepele
• Limburgish: laepel

• “lepel”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “lepel”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN