loup

• loop

Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).

• IPA^(key): /luːp/

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Homophone: loop

loup (plural loups)

1. A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the tilt hammer or rolls.

• Lo-p'u, Lupo

Inherited from Middle French loup, from an old western dialectal variant lou of Old French leu and reformed analogically from the feminine louve from Latin lupus (“wolf”).

Cognate with Italian lupo; Portuguese and Spanish lobo.

• IPA^(key): /lu/

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• Rhymes: -u

loup m (plural loups, feminine louve)

1. wolf

   un jeune loup ― a young wolf

2. bass (fish)
3. mask, eyemask
4. flaw

• Loup
• louveteau

• Haitian Creole: lou
• ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lulu
• ⇒ Seychellois Creole: loulou
• → English: loo; Loup

• “loup”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• “loup” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “loup” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.

From a western dialectal variant of Old French leu, lou (or reformed analogically from the feminine louve), replacing the native Old French, all from Latin lupus.

loup m (plural loups)

1. wolf (animal)

• French: loup
  • Haitian Creole: lou
  • ⇒ Mauritian Creole: lulu
  • ⇒ Seychellois Creole: loulou
  • → English: loo; Loup

• loub

From Proto-West Germanic *laub, see also Old Saxon lōf, Old English lēaf, Old Norse lauf, Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs).

loup n

1. leaves

• Middle High German: loup
  • Alemannic German: Làuib (Alsatian)
  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: loap

    Mòcheno: lap

  • Hunsrik: Laab
  • German: Laub
  • Luxembourgish: Laf
  • Rhine Franconian: Laab

    Frankfurterisch: Laab

  • Vilamovian: łojp

• lowp (Southern Scots)

From Middle English lopen, borrowed from Old Norse hlaupa, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupaną. Doublet of lepe, which was inherited from Old English hlēapan.

• IPA^(key): /lʌʊp/

loup (third-person singular simple present loups, present participle loupin, simple past loupit, past participle loupit)

1. to leap
   • 1786, Robert Burns, Address To The Toothache:

     I throw the wee stools o'er the mickle, / While round the fire the giglets keckle, / To see me loup

     I throw the little stools over the mickle, / While round the fire the children cackle, / To see me leap