# lop
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /lɒp/
** Audio (UK):(file)
* (General American, Canada) IPA: /lɑp/
* (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /lɔp/, /lɒp/
** Audio (Queensland):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɒp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

#### Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)
* (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
** 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I:Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
* To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
* To allow to hang down.
    to lop the head

##### Synonyms

* (to cut off): snead

##### Derived terms

* lop-eared
* lop off
* lopper, loppers

##### Translations
#### Noun

lop (plural lops)
* That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
** 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
** 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow

#### See also

* defalcate

#### References

* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### Etymology 2

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

#### Noun

lop (plural lops)
* (Geordie) A flea.
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
** 1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems:Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops

##### Derived terms

* fit as a lop

#### References

* Frank Graham, editor (1987), “LOP”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
* Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “lop”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
* “lop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
* Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “lop”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
* Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
* “Lop”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
* Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977

### Etymology 3

Back-formation of lopsided.

#### Noun

lop (plural lops)
* (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
** 1935, Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, page 5:"He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
* Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

#### See also

* lob
* lop chong

### Anagrams

* Pol., POL, PLO, pol, OLP, LPO

## A-Pucikwar
### Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap.

### Verb

lop
* to count

### References

* Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* lo (Old Dauphinois)

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin lupus.

### Noun

lop m (plural lops) (ORB, broad)
* wolf

### References

* loup in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* lop in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

### Further information

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 434: “il lupo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 783: “loup” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lŭpus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 457

## Hungarian
### Etymology

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlop]
* Rhymes: -op

### Verb

lop
* (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)
    Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.
    Synonyms: (slang) csór, lenyúl, meglovasít, megfúj, (literary) oroz, (formal) eltulajdonít, (euphemistic, informal) elemel
    Perfective: ellop

#### Derived terms

* lopakodik
* lopat
* lopás
* lopdos
* lopható
* lopkod
* lopogat
* lopódzik
* loppal
* lopva
* naplopó
(With verbal prefixes):
* belop
* belelop
* ellop
* hozzálop
* kilop
* lelop
* meglop
* összelop
* visszalop

#### Descendants

* Serbo-Croatian: lopov
* Slovene: lópov

### See also

* csen
* rabol

### References

* ↑ lop in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)

### Further reading

* lop 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

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *lōp.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɔp̚]
* Hyphenation: lop

### Noun

lop
* barrel (of a firearm)
    Synonym: laras

### Further reading

* “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle English
### Noun

lop
* Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

## Occitan
### Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlup]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)
* wolf

#### Derived terms

* cese de lop
* penche de lop

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

### Noun

lop
* end
* (often in the plural) the rest
* (grammar) ending

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Noun

lop (nominative plural lops)
* opera

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* lopöp
* lopül