# लोप
## Hindi
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit लोप (lópa).

### Pronunciation

* (Delhi) IPA: /loːp/

### Noun

लोप • (lop) m
* (rare, formal) cutting off, mutilation, destruction, omission, dropping or falling out, disappearance, rejection, annulling, cancelling, erasure
* (grammar) elision, apocope

#### Declension
### Further reading

* Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “लोप”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
* McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “लोप”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
* Platts, John T. (1884) “लोप”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* lopa (Latin script)
* 𑀮𑁄𑀧 (Brahmi script)
* লোপ (Bengali script)
* ලොප (Sinhalese script)
* လောပ or လေႃပ (Burmese script)
* โลป or โลปะ (Thai script)
* ᩃᩮᩣᨷ (Tai Tham script)
* ໂລປ or ໂລປະ (Lao script)
* លោប (Khmer script)
* 𑄣𑄮𑄛 (Chakma script)

### Noun

लोप m
* Devanagari script form of lopa (“cutting off”)
** c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎, page 294; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:तिस्स त्थित्तं॥१३॥ अस इच्चेताय धातुया तिस्स विभत्तिस्स त्थित्तं होति धात्वन्तस्स लोपो च।अत्थि।13. Tissa tthittaṃ. Asa iccetāya dhātuyā tissa vibhattissa tthittaṃ hoti dhātvantassa lopo ca. Atthi.'Tthi' from 'ti'. 'As': from this root the ending 'ti' becomes 'tthi' and the end of the root is dropped. Yields atthi.

#### Declension
## Sanskrit
### Alternative scripts

* লোপ (Assamese script)
* ᬮᭀᬧ (Balinese script)
* লোপ (Bengali script)
* 𑰩𑰺𑰢 (Bhaiksuki script)
* 𑀮𑁄𑀧 (Brahmi script)
* လောပ (Burmese script)
* લોપ (Gujarati script)
* ਲੋਪ (Gurmukhi script)
* 𑌲𑍋𑌪 (Grantha script)
* ꦭꦺꦴꦥ (Javanese script)
* 𑂪𑂷𑂣 (Kaithi script)
* ಲೋಪ (Kannada script)
* លោប (Khmer script)
* ໂລປ (Lao script)
* ലോപ (Malayalam script)
* ᠯᠣᢒᠠ (Manchu script)
* 𑘩𑘻𑘢 (Modi script)
* ᠯᠣᠸᠠᢒᠠ (Mongolian script)
* 𑧉𑧜𑧂 (Nandinagari script)
* 𑐮𑑀𑐥 (Newa script)
* ଲୋପ (Odia script)
* ꢭꣂꢦ (Saurashtra script)
* 𑆬𑆾𑆥 (Sharada script)
* 𑖩𑖺𑖢 (Siddham script)
* ලොප (Sinhalese script)
* 𑩽𑩕𑩰 (Soyombo script)
* 𑚥𑚴𑚞 (Takri script)
* லோப (Tamil script)
* లోప (Telugu script)
* โลป (Thai script)
* ལོ་པ (Tibetan script)
* 𑒪𑒼𑒣 (Tirhuta script)
* 𑨬𑨆𑨞 (Zanabazar Square script)

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *Hláwpas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hláwpas, from Proto-Indo-European *Hrówp-o-s, from the root *Hrewp- (“to break, tear (up)”) +‎ *-os. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *raubaz (“rape; robbery”).

### Pronunciation

* (Vedic) IPA: /lɐ́w.pɐ/
* (Classical Sanskrit) IPA: /ˈl̪oː.pɐ/

### Noun

लोप • (lópa) stem, m
* breaking, hurting, injury, destruction, interruption
* neglect, violation, transgression (of a vow or duty)
* robbing, plundering
* want, deficiency, absence, disappearance
* (grammar) dropping, elision

#### Descendants

* Gujarati: લોપ (lop)
* Hindi: लोप (lop)
* Bengali: লোপ (lōp)
* Pali: lopa
* → Thai: ลบ (lóp)

### References

* ↑ Mayrhofer, Manfred (1996) “LOP”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎ (in German), volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 482
* ↑ Lubotsky, Alexander (2011) “lop”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University

### Further reading

* Monier Williams (1899) “लोप”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 904, column 3.