nap
Translingual
Etymology
Abbreviation of EnglishCategory:Translingual terms derived from English#NAP NeapolitanCategory:Translingual abbreviations#NAP.
Symbol
napCategory:Translingual lemmas#NAPCategory:Translingual symbols#NAPCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#NAPCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
See also
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /næp/Category:English 1-syllable words#NAPCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#NAP
Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#NAPAudio (Southern England): (file) - Homophone: knapCategory:English terms with homophones#NAP
- Rhymes: -æpCategory:Rhymes:English/æp#NAPCategory:Rhymes:English/æp/1 syllable#NAP
Etymology 1
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#NAP nappen, from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Old English#NAP hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#NAP *hnappōn (“to nap”). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (whence Middle High German nafzen (“to slumber”) whence German dialectal napfezen, nafzen (“to nod, slumber, nap”)).
Verb
nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English verbs#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
- (figuratively) To be off one's guard.
- The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.Category:English terms with usage examples#NAP
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- I took thee napping, unprepared.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#NAP nap, from the verb nappen.
Noun
nap (plural naps)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English nouns#NAPCategory:English countable nouns#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:shut-eye, Thesaurus:sleep
Derived terms
Translations
See also
See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for collocations of nap.
Etymology 3
From late Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#NAP noppe, nappe, from Middle DutchCategory:English terms derived from Middle Dutch#NAP and Middle Low GermanCategory:English terms derived from Middle Low German#NAP noppe, noppen (“to trim the nap”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitativeCategory:English onomatopoeias#NAP origin. Related to the first element of knapsack.
Noun
nap (countable and uncountable, plural naps)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English nouns#NAPCategory:English uncountable nouns#NAPCategory:English countable nouns#NAPCategory:English countable nouns#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- On his long, gaunt body, he carried no spare flesh, no superfluous beard, his chin having a soft, economical nap to it, like the worn nap of his broad-brimmed hat.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 37:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- There were low bookshelves, there was a thick pinkish Chinese rug in which a gopher could have spent a week without showing his nose above the nap.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
- 1961, Skyline, page 9:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- THEY CALL IT the "nap of the Earth," that area from the ground to the level of surrounding trees and hills, the thin rug of foliage and rock folds at the Earth's skin line that has become all-important to the United States Army.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
- 1987, Some Data Processing Requirements for Precision Nap-Of-the-Earth (NOE) Guidance and Control of Rotorcraft:
- If incorporated in automatic guidance, this practical pursuit adjustment will enhance pilot acceptance of automatic guidance in following nap-of-the-earth profiles with precision.
- The common direction, on some kinds of fabric, of the hairs making up the pile.
- If the fabric has a nap, make sure all pieces are cut with the nap going the same direction.Category:English terms with usage examples#NAP
- 1969, Classic Car, volumes 17-19, page 32:
- Instead of grinding the pistons straight around the axis, they are ground diagonally with a special-built machine. As a result, the “nap” of the metal is turned in such a way that, when it meets the “nap” of the cylinder wall, both surfaces quickly develop a high finish which removes the danger of scoring a piston.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English verbs#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
Translations
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Etymology 4
From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France.
Noun
nap (countable and uncountable, plural naps)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English nouns#NAPCategory:English uncountable nouns#NAPCategory:English countable nouns#NAPCategory:English countable nouns#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- (BritishCategory:British English#NAP) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
- 2005, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, The Economics of Gambling, page 71:Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned
- 4. Races run on English, Welsh or Scottish racecourses. This criterion was included so that media tipsters [sic] nap selections in general could be analysed; the source of naps, The Racing Rag 'tipster table', summarises the nap selections of newspaper tipsters, who restrict their selection to horses running at racecourses in these countries.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
- (uncountableCategory:English uncountable nouns#NAP, card gamesCategory:en:Card games#NAP) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
- A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 5
Probably of North GermanicCategory:English terms derived from North Germanic languages#NAP origin, from Old SwedishCategory:English terms derived from Old Swedish#NAP nappa (“to pluck, pinch”). Related to nab.
Verb
nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English verbs#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
Alternative forms
- knap (obsolete)
Derived terms
Etymology 6
From FrenchCategory:English terms borrowed from French#NAPCategory:English terms derived from French#NAP napper, from nappe (“nape”).
Verb
nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English verbs#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- (cookingCategory:en:Cooking#NAP) To cover (something) with a sauce. (usually in the passive)
- 2006, Wayne Gisslen, Mary Ellen Griffin, Professional Cooking for Canadian Chefs:
- Vanilla ice cream topped with a poached or canned pear half, napped with chocolate sauce, and garnished with toasted sliced almonds.Category:English terms with quotations#NAP
Etymology 7
From Middle EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Middle English#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Middle English#NAP nap (“a bowl”), from Old EnglishCategory:English terms inherited from Old English#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Old English#NAP hnæpp (“a cup, bowl”), from Proto-West GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#NAP *hnapp, from Proto-GermanicCategory:English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#NAPCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#NAP *hnappaz (“a cup, bowl”). Cognate with Dutch nap (“drinking cup”), Low German Napp (“bowl, cup”), German Napf (“bowl”), Icelandic hnappur (“button, key”). Doublet of hanapCategory:English doublets#NAP. See also nappy.
Noun
nap (plural naps)Category:English lemmas#NAPCategory:English nouns#NAPCategory:English countable nouns#NAPCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- (Northern EnglandCategory:Northern England English#NAP, ScotlandCategory:Scottish English#NAP) A cup, bowl.
References
Anagrams
Category:en:Sleep#NAPCatalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old CatalanCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Old Catalan#NAPCategory:Catalan terms derived from Old Catalan#NAP nap, from LatinCategory:Catalan terms inherited from Latin#NAPCategory:Catalan terms derived from Latin#NAP nāpus.
Pronunciation
Noun
nap m (plural naps)Category:Catalan lemmas#NAPCategory:Catalan nouns#NAPCategory:Catalan countable nouns#NAPCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
References
- “nap”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “nap”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “nap” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “nap”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Chuukese
Adjective
napCategory:Chuukese lemmas#NAPCategory:Chuukese adjectives#NAPCategory:Chuukese entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Middle Dutch#NAPCategory:Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch#NAP nap, from Old DutchCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch#NAPCategory:Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch#NAP nap, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#NAPCategory:Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic#NAP *hnappaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nɑp/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#NAP
Category:Dutch terms with audio pronunciation#NAPAudio: (file) - Hyphenation: nap
- Rhymes: -ɑpCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ɑp#NAP
Noun
nap m (plural nappen, diminutive napje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#NAPCategory:Dutch nouns#NAPCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#NAPCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#NAPCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- drinking cup
Derived terms
Anagrams
Hungarian
Etymology
Of unknown origin.Category:Hungarian terms with unknown etymologies#NAP[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
nap (plural napok)Category:Hungarian lemmas#NAPCategory:Hungarian nouns#NAPCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- day
- Egy hét hét napból áll. ― A week consists of seven days.Category:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
- sun (also written Nap in astronomical context), (in compounds) solar
- Süt a nap. ― The sun is shining.Category:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
- napszél ― solar windCategory:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
- naprendszer ― solar systemCategory:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
Usage notes
(day):
| Adverbs of temporal nouns (see also: Appendix:Hungarian words of time) | |
|---|---|
| no suffix (the noun can act as an adverb) | nappal (“daytime”), reggel (“early morning”), délelőtt (“late morning”), délután (“afternoon”), este (“evening”), éjjel / éjszaka (“night”), and vasárnap (“Sunday”) |
| -kor (“at”) | pirkadat / virradat (“dawn”), napkelte (“sunrise”), napnyugta (“sunset”), alkonyat (“dusk”), szürkület (“twilight”), éjfél (“midnight”), hours and minutes, and the names of holidays (húsvét (“Easter”) etc.) |
| -ban/-ben (“in”) | dél (“noon”), hajnal (“daybreak”), names of months (január–december) and hónap (“month”), évszak (“season”), év (“year”) and specific years, évtized (“decade”) and longer periods |
| -n/-on/-en/-ön (“on”) | days of the week (hétfő–szombat) except Sunday, days of the month (elseje (“1st”), másodika (“2nd”) etc.), nap (“day”), hét (“week”), nyár (“summer”), and tél (“winter”) |
| -val/-vel (“with”, assimilated: -szal/-szel) | tavasz (“spring”), ősz (“autumn, fall”) |
(sun): Some astronomical and geographical terms have both a lowercase (common noun) and a capitalized (proper noun) form. For föld (“ground, soil”)―Föld (“Earth”), hold (“moon, satellite”)―Hold (“the Moon”), and nap (“day; sun”)―Nap (“the Sun”), the lowercase forms are used in the everyday sense and the capitalized forms in the astronomical sense. In other similar pairs, the former refers to generic sense, and the latter specifies the best known referent: egyenlítő (“equator”)―Egyenlítő (“Equator”), naprendszer (“solar system, planetary system”)―Naprendszer (“Solar System”), and tejút (“galaxy”, literally “milky way”, but galaxis and galaktika are more common)―Tejút (“Milky Way”).
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | nap | napok |
| accusative | napot | napokat |
| dative | napnak | napoknak |
| instrumental | nappal | napokkal |
| causal-final | napért | napokért |
| translative | nappá | napokká |
| terminative | napig | napokig |
| essive-formal | napként | napokként |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | napban | napokban |
| superessive | napon | napokon |
| adessive | napnál | napoknál |
| illative | napba | napokba |
| sublative | napra | napokra |
| allative | naphoz | napokhoz |
| elative | napból | napokból |
| delative | napról | napokról |
| ablative | naptól | napoktól |
| non-attributive possessive – singular |
napé | napoké |
| non-attributive possessive – plural |
napéi | napokéi |
Derived terms
Adverb
napCategory:Hungarian lemmas#NAPCategory:Hungarian adverbs#NAPCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- (following certain adjectives) on the specified (kind or number of) day(s)
- Synonym: napon
- minden áldott nap ― (on) every single dayCategory:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
- Egész nap ott voltunk. ― We were there (on) the whole day.Category:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
- Egyik nap ezt akarja, (a) másik nap meg azt. ― S/he wants one thing on some days and another (thing) on other days.Category:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
- Egy nap úgy döntött, elég volt. ― (On) some day s/he decided enough was enough.Category:Hungarian terms with usage examples#NAP
Usage notes
Using a bare noun for an adverb Category:Hungarian conversions#NAP is typical for times of the day like reggel (“morning”), este (“evening”) etc., but not for time units like minute, hour, week, month, or year, which all take a suffix when used as adverbs (percben, órában, héten, hónapban, évben). Even nap takes -on in most cases other than those above. However, the bare form also occurs in compound adverbs such as aznap, másnap, mindennap and vasárnap (the latter functions as a noun too), as well as tegnap and holnap.
References
- ↑ nap in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- nap 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.
Middle English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#NAPCategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#NAP hnæpp, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#NAPCategory:Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#NAP *hnapp, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#NAPCategory:Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#NAP *hnappaz.
Alternative forms
Noun
napCategory:Middle English lemmas#NAPCategory:Middle English nouns#NAPCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP (plural nappes)
Descendants
References
- “nap, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 July 2018.
Etymology 2
Back-formation from nappenCategory:Middle English back-formations#NAP.
Alternative forms
Noun
napCategory:Middle English lemmas#NAPCategory:Middle English nouns#NAPCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
Descendants
References
- “nap, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 July 2018.
Etymology 3
Verb
napCategory:Middle English alternative forms#NAPCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- alternative form of nappen
Occitan
Etymology
From Old OccitanCategory:Occitan terms inherited from Old Occitan#NAPCategory:Occitan terms derived from Old Occitan#NAP nap, from LatinCategory:Occitan terms inherited from Latin#NAPCategory:Occitan terms derived from Latin#NAP nāpus.
Pronunciation
Noun
nap m (plural naps)Category:Occitan lemmas#NAPCategory:Occitan nouns#NAPCategory:Occitan countable nouns#NAPCategory:Occitan entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Occitan masculine nouns#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
Derived terms
References
- Cassignac, Arve (2015), Dictionnaire occitan de communication : français-occitan, occitan-français [Occitan Dictionary of Communication: French-Occitan, Occitan-French] (in French and Occitan), Mobileoccitan.com, →ISBN, →OCLC
Old English
Pronunciation
Verb
nāpCategory:Old English non-lemma forms#NAPCategory:Old English verb forms#NAPCategory:Old English entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
Romanian
Alternative forms
- нап (nap) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling
Etymology
Inherited from LatinCategory:Romanian terms inherited from Latin#NAPCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#NAP nāpus.
Pronunciation
Noun
nap m (plural napi)Category:Romanian lemmas#NAPCategory:Romanian nouns#NAPCategory:Romanian countable nouns#NAPCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#NAPCategory:Romanian masculine nouns#NAPCategory:Pages with entries#NAPCategory:Pages with 10 entries#NAP
- turnip or swede (Brassica rapa)
- carrot