nap

See also: Nap, NAP, nắp, Näp, and -nap

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /nap/
  • (US) IPA(key): /næp/
  • Rhymes: -æp
  • Homophone: knap

Etymology 1

From Middle English nappen, from Old English hnappian (“to doze, slumber, sleep”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappōną (“to nap”). Cognate with Old High German hnaffezan, hnaffezzan (> Middle High German nafzen (“to slumber”) > German dialectal napfezen, nafzen (“to nod, slumber, nap”)).

Noun

nap (plural naps)

  1. A short period of sleep, especially one during the day.
Synonyms
  • See Thesaurus:sleep
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See also

See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for collocations of nap

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

  1. To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day.
  2. To be off one's guard.
    • Hudibras
      I took thee napping, unprepared.
    The regulators were caught napping by the financial collapse.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English nappe, from Middle Dutch

Noun

nap (countable and uncountable, plural naps)

  1. A soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather.
    • 1591, King Henry VI part II, by William Shakespeare
      I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier means to dress the commonwealth, and turn it, and set a new nap upon it.
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16
      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.
    • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 37:
      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.
  2. 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.
Translations

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

  1. To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather).

Etymology 3

From the name of the French emperor Napoleon I of France

Noun

nap (plural naps)

  1. (Britain) A type of bet in British horse racing, based on the experts' best tips.
  2. (uncountable, card games) A card game in which players take tricks; properly Napoleon.
  3. A bid to take five tricks in the card game Napoleon.
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Etymology 4

Possibly of North Germanic origin, cognate with nab, see Swedish nappa (“to pinch”).

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

  1. (obsolete) To grab; to nab.
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Etymology 5

From French napper, from nappe (“nape”).

Verb

nap (third-person singular simple present naps, present participle napping, simple past and past participle napped)

  1. (cooking) To cover (something) with a sauce (usually in 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.

Etymology 6

From Middle English nap (“a bowl”), from Old English hnæpp (“a cup, bowl”), from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz (“a cup, bowl”). Cognate with Dutch nap (“drinking cup”), German Napf (“bowl”), Low German Napp (“bowl, cup”), Icelandic hnappur (“button, key”). See also nappy.

Noun

nap (plural naps)

  1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A cup, bowl.
References

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin napus.

Pronunciation

Noun

nap m (plural naps)

  1. turnip, Brassica rapa

Chuukese

Adjective

nap

  1. great

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nap, from Old Dutch nap, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɑp/
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Noun

nap m (plural nappen, diminutive napje n)

  1. drinking cup

Derived terms

  • zuignap

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈnɒp]
  • Audio(file)

Noun

nap (plural napok)

  1. day
    Egy hét hét napból áll. ― A week consists of seven days.
  2. sun (also written Nap in astronomical context)
    Süt a nap. ― The sun is shining.

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
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
Possessive forms of nap
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. napom napjaim
2nd person sing. napod napjaid
3rd person sing. napja napjai
1st person plural napunk napjaink
2nd person plural napotok napjaitok
3rd person plural napjuk napjaik

Derived terms

Further reading

  • nap in Hungarian-English dictionary at SZTAKI

Occitan

Etymology

Latin napus

Noun

nap m (plural naps)

  1. turnip (Brassica rapa)

Derived terms

References

    Romanian

    Etymology

    From Latin nāpus.

    Noun

    nap m (plural napi)

    1. turnip or swede (Brassica napus)
    2. carrot

    Declension

    See also

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