# лапа
## Budukh
### Etymology

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

### Noun

лапа • (lapa)
* a wave

## Bulgarian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɫapɐ]

#### Noun

ла́па • (lápa) f (diminutive ла́пичка)
* 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”)
* (figurative, colloquial) rough, big human's hand

##### Derived terms

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

##### Related terms

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

#### References

* “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), volume 3 (крес¹ – мѝнго¹), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Pubg. House, page 309

### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɫɐˈpa]

#### Noun

лапа́ • (lapá) f
* (dialectal, dated, often only in plural) old-fashioned cataplasm (usually made of flour or barn mixed with water)
    Synonym: лече́бна ка́ша (lečébna káša)

##### Declension
#### References

* “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), volume 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

### Etymology 3

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”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɫɐˈpa]

#### Noun

лапа́ • (lapá) f
* (obsolete) sleet, slush (mixture of rain, snow, and/or hail)
    Synonyms: ки́ша (kíša), сугра́шица (sugrášica), мо́кър сняг (mókǎr snjag)

##### Derived terms

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

#### References

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

### Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɫapɐ]

#### Verb

ла́па • (lápa)
* third-person singular present indicative of ла́пам (lápam)

### Anagrams

* пала (pala)

## Macedonian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɫapa]
* Rhymes: -apa

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *olpati.

#### Verb

лапа • (lapa) third-singular present, impf (perfective лапне)
* (transitive) to eat gluttonously, gobble
* (transitive) to place in one's mouth
* (transitive) to make out with

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

лапа • (lapa) f
* paw

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

лапа • (lapa) f
* a type of dish made with rice and poppy

## Russian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɫapə]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ла́па • (lápa) f inan (genitive ла́пы, nominative plural ла́пы, genitive plural лап, diminutive ла́пка or ла́почка)
* paw
** 1925, Сергей Есенин [Sergei Yesenin], Собаке Качалова; English translation from Peter Tempest, transl., To Kachalov's Dog, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1982:Дай, Джим, на сча́стье ла́пу мне, Таку́ю ла́пу не вида́л я сро́ду. Дава́й с тобо́й пола́ем при луне́ На ти́хую, бесшу́мную пого́ду. Дай, Джим, на сча́стье ла́пу мне.Daj, Džim, na sčástʹje lápu mne, Takúju lápu ne vidál ja sródu. Daváj s tobój polájem pri luné Na tíxuju, besšúmnuju pogódu. Daj, Džim, na sčástʹje lápu mne.Соmе, Jim, give mе your paw for luck, I swear I've neveг seen one like it. Let's go, the two of us, and bark Up at the mооn when Nature's silent. Соmе, Jim, give me your paw fог luck.
* (colloquial) human's hand or foot

#### Derived terms

* ла́пник m (lápnik)

##### Phrases

* дать на ла́пу pf (datʹ na lápu), дава́ть на ла́пу impf (davátʹ na lápu)
* мохна́тая ла́па f (moxnátaja lápa)

#### Descendants

* → Ingrian: laappa

### References

* Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “лапа”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
* Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “лапа”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 466
* Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1987), “*lapa”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 14 (*labati – *lěteplъjь), Moscow: Nauka, page 26
* Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (1999), “лапа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), number 9 (Л), Moscow: Moscow University Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 27
* Krylov, G. A. (2004) “лапа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Saint Petersburg: Victory, →ISBN
* Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989) “лапа”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 207

## Ukrainian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɫapɐ]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

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