jap

• Jap

Shortening of Japanese, in reference to the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒæp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æp

jap (third-person singular simple present japs, present participle japping, simple past and past participle japped)

1. (Canada, US, ethnic slur, slang, transitive) To carry out a sneak attack upon (something or somebody).

• AJP, JPA, PJA, paj

• ap — Gheg

Variant of dialectal ap, from Proto-Albanian *apa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁op-eio/e-, from *h₁ep- (“to take”).^[1] The verb is suppletive with past dhashë and participle dhënë from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃-.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /jaːp/

jap (aorist dhashë, participle dhënë) (Tosk)

1. to give

Root
j-y-b
1 term

From common dialectal Arabic جَابَ (jāba), from a univerbation of جَاءَ بِ (jāʔa bi-, literally “to come with”), equivalent to Cypriot Arabic ja +‎ b-. Cognate with Egyptian Arabic جاب (gāb, “to bring”), Moroccan Arabic جاب (jāb, “to bring”) and Maltese ġab (“to bring”).

jap I (present pijíp)

1. to bring

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 192

• IPA^(key): /jɑp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: jap
• Rhymes: -ɑp

jap m (plural jappen)

1. (official spelling) Alternative letter-case form of Jap

jap

1. (colloquial) yep; yup; yop

jap

1. ash
2. lime (calcium-containing material)

• Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎^[2] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 9

Onomatopoeic.

jap

1. smack