# lep
## Translingual
### Symbol

lep
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lepcha.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Lepcha terms

## English
### Etymology

Short for Lepidoptera.

### Noun

lep (plural leps)
* (rare, sciences) A butterfly or moth.
** 2006, Lori A. Spencer, Don R. Simons, Arkansas Butterflies and Moths, page 3:Butterflies and moths belong to the insect order Lepidoptera (“leps” for short), which means “scale-wing.”

### Anagrams

* 'elp, -ple, EPL, LPE, pel

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *läppɜ (“roof, cover”). Cognate with Udmurt липыны (ľipyny, “covering, roof”) and Lule Sami liehpa/liehppa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛp]
* Rhymes: -ɛp

### Verb

lep
* (literary or archaic) to cover
    See synonyms at Thesaurus:fed.

#### Usage notes

This form normally occurs when a verbal prefix is separated from the verb:
* lep (…) be, be … lep ― belep
* lep (…) el, el … lep ― ellep
* lep (…) meg, meg … lep ― meglep

#### Derived terms

* lepel
(With verbal prefixes):
* belep
* ellep
* meglep

### References

* ↑ Álgu etymological database, entry #37965 (language: Hungarian, word: lep)

### Further reading

* lep in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Luo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lɛ̀p/

### Noun

lep
* tongue

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* leep, lepe

### Etymology

From Old English leap; see further there.

### Noun

lep (plural lepes)
* A basket; a bucket.
** c. 1500, “Suspencio Iude [The Hanging of Judas]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 395, lines 55–60:My ded to se then myght be noght; / A lytyll lep he gart be wroght, / & ther I was in bed [i-]brought / & bondon faste; / To the salt se then thay soght, / & In me Caste.So as not to see my death, he bade a basket be made, and I was brought there from my bed, and bound fast. They went to the salt sea, and cast me in.

#### Descendants

* English: leap

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

lep
* (non-standard since 1938) present tense of lepja
* (non-standard since 1938) imperative of lepja

### Anagrams

* pel

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɛp/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛp
* Syllabification: lep

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lě̑pъ.

#### Noun

lep m inan
* flypaper (“a strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it”)

##### Related terms

* lepki
* lepowy
* lepiszcze
* lepić

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

lep f
* genitive plural of lepa

#### Verb

lep
* second-person singular imperative of lepić

### Further reading

* lep in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* lep in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* lijȇp (Ijekavian)
* lip (Ikavian)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lěpъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lêːp/

### Adjective

lȇp (Cyrillic spelling ле̑п, definite lȇpī, comparative lȅpšī)
* nice, pretty

#### Declension
## Slovene
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *lěpъ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /léːp/

#### Adjective

lẹ̑p (comparative lẹ̑pši, superlative nȁjlẹ̑pši)
* beautiful; handsome
    Antonym: gȓd
    Njegova hči je mlada in zelo lepa ženska. ― His daughter is a young and very pretty woman.
* nice

##### Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

##### Related terms

* lepóten
* lepóta
* lepótec / lepotíca
* lẹ̑pšati

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /léːp/

#### Noun

lẹ̑p m inan
* (archaic) glue
    Synonym: lepílo

##### Inflection
### Further reading

* “lep”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *leppä, possibly borrowed from Proto-Baltic *léiˀpāˀ. Cognates include Finnish leppä.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

lep
* alder (tree)

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [lep]

### Noun

lep (nominative plural leps)
* (male or female) ape
* (male or female) monkey

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* lepik

#### Related terms

* lif
* lifav
* sügaf
* süganim
* süganimav
* nim
* nimav