лапа

Akin to Lezgi лепе (lepe). ultimately from persian Persian لبه.

лапа • (lapa)

1. a wave

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, possibly borrowed from Russian (omitted in Gerov's dictionary).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

ла́па • (lápa) f (diminutive ла́пичка)

1. paw (lower end of animal's limbs)

   попа́дам в ла́пите ― popádam v lápite ― to fall under control (literally, “to fall into the paws [of someone]”)

   изтръ́гвам ня́кого от ла́пите ― iztrǎ́gvam njákogo ot lápite ― to emancipate someone from [someone else's] control/hold (literally, “to wrest someone from [someone else's] paws”)

2. (figurative, colloquial) rough, big human's hand

• ла́пица (lápica, “animal's lower limb”)
• ла́пест (lápest), ла́пав (lápav, “with large paws”)

• лапа́вец (lapávec, “type of flat sweetwater fish”) (dialectal, regional)

• “ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “ла́па”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “ла́па”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لاپا (“lapa”). Also loaned into Greek λαπα̃ς (lapãs), dialectal Albanian lapë, Romanian lapă, Aromanian lapa with similar meanings.

• IPA^(key): [ɫɐˈpa]

лапа́ • (lapá) f

1. (dialectal, dated, often only in plural) old-fashioned cataplasm (usually made of flour or barn mixed with water)

   Synonym: лече́бна ка́ша (lečébna káša)

• “лапа́”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “лапи́”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010
• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лапа́¹”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309
• Nayden Gerov (1899) “*лапа́”, in Рѣчникъ на Блъгарскꙑй язꙑкъ. Съ тлъкувание рѣчи-тꙑ на Блъгарскꙑ и на Русскꙑ. [Dictionary of the Bulgarian language]‎ (in Bulgarian), volume 3, Plovdiv: Дружествена печꙗтница "Съгласие.", page 5

From Proto-Slavic *xlapa (“slush, sleet”) with colloquial elision of initial #x-, cognate with Polish chlapa. Perhaps related to Lithuanian šlãpias (“wet”), šlãpė (“damp place or land”).

• IPA^(key): [ɫɐˈpa]

лапа́ • (lapá) f

1. (obsolete) sleet, slush (mixture of rain, snow, and/or hail)

   Synonyms: ки́ша (kíša), сугра́шица (sugrášica), мо́кър сняг (mókǎr snjag)

• лапа́вина (lapávina, “melted snow, slush”) (dialectal)
• лапа́вица (lapávica, “bad weather with sleet”) (dialectal)

• Georgiev, Vladimir I., editor (1986), “лапа́²”, in Български етимологичен речник [Bulgarian Etymological Dictionary] (in Bulgarian), volumes 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309

From Proto-Slavic *olpati.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

ла́па • (lápa)

1. third-person singular present indicative of ла́пам (lápam)

• пала (pala)

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapa]
• Rhymes: -apa

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olpati.

лапа • (lapa) third-singular present, impf (perfective лапне)

1. (transitive) to eat gluttonously, gobble
2. (transitive) to place in one's mouth
3. (transitive) to make out with

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa. Cognate with Russian ла́па (lápa), Polish łapa.

лапа • (lapa) f

1. paw

Possibly from Ottoman Turkish [Term?]. Cognate with Turkish lapa, Greek λαπάς (lapás).

лапа • (lapa) f

1. a type of dish made with rice and poppy

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapə]

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ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пы, nominative plural ла́пы, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)

1. paw
2. (colloquial) human's hand or foot

• → Ingrian: laappa

From Proto-Slavic *lapa, according to Vasmer, cognate with Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“the palm or hollow of the hand”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɫapɐ]

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ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пи, nominative plural ла́пи, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)

1. paw