alap

• alaap
• alapa

Borrowed from Sanskrit आलापा (ālāpā).

alap (plural alaps)

1. (music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 176:

     The alaap is the part of our classical music that I like best. It is an inward voyage, an odyssey into the unknown.

• Pala, lapa, pa'al, pala

• IPA^(key): /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔa.l̪ap]
• Hyphenation: a‧lap

alap! (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜉ᜔)

1. cheers!

   Synonym: tagay

alap

1. wing

From al (“lower part”) +‎ -p (hypothetical nominal-forming suffix; obsolete). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.^[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlɒp]

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• Hyphenation: alap
• Rhymes: -ɒp

alap (plural alapok)

1. base, foundation
2. (figuratively, especially in the forms alapon and alapján) (on a…) basis, (on the) basis (of…), (on the) grounds (of…), (by the) token (of…), (as a) matter (of…), (by) reason (of…), (at a/the/that) rate (that…)

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	alap	alapok
accusative	alapot	alapokat
dative	alapnak	alapoknak
instrumental	alappal	alapokkal
causal-final	alapért	alapokért
translative	alappá	alapokká
terminative	alapig	alapokig
essive-formal	alapként	alapokként
essive-modal	alapul	alapokul
inessive	alapban	alapokban
superessive	alapon	alapokon
adessive	alapnál	alapoknál
illative	alapba	alapokba
sublative	alapra	alapokra
allative	alaphoz	alapokhoz
elative	alapból	alapokból
delative	alapról	alapokról
ablative	alaptól	alapoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	alapé	alapoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	alapéi	alapokéi

Possessive forms of alap
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	alapom	alapjaim
2nd person sing.	alapod	alapjaid
3rd person sing.	alapja	alapjai
1st person plural	alapunk	alapjaink
2nd person plural	alapotok	alapjaitok
3rd person plural	alapjuk	alapjaik

• alap in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• alap in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

alap

1. Romanization of ꦲꦭꦥ꧀

• IPA^(key): /alap/
• Rhymes: -alap, -lap, -ap

From Proto-Malayic *alap, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (alap) in inflected form maṅalap (current spelling mengalap).

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)

1. (colloquial, Kedah Malay) to gather a fruit using pole (that attached with knife or hook).
2. (obsolete) to take.

• delapan, lapan
• mengalap
• alap-alap

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)

1. slowly, calmly
2. (colloquial) quite and gentle.
3. unhurried
4. within long intervals

• Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “الڤ alap”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 17
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “الڤ alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 31
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 17

• “alap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

alap

1. to take
2. to fetch
3. to carry off
4. to steal
5. to seize
6. to win

• Javanese: ꦲꦭꦥ꧀ (alap)

• "alap" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔaː.lɐp̚]
• Rhymes: -alap
• Syllabification: a‧lap

alap (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜉ᜔)

1. shift; turn (in a work or assignment)

   Synonyms: turno, halili, halang

2. selective cutting or harvesting (of grass, rice, corn, fruits, etc.)

   Synonym: gamas

3. recruitment (of laborers)

   Synonym: kalap

4. enlistment (into the army or navy)

   Synonym: kalap

5. scum

   Synonyms: eskoma, linab

6. act of scooping out the scum (on the liquid surface)

   Synonyms: sagap, salap

• “alap”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• pala-, alpa, pala, lapa