# alap
## English
### Alternative forms

* alaap
* alapa

### Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit आलापा (ālāpā).

### Noun

alap (plural alaps)
* (music) The opening, improvised section of a Classical raga performance, before the formal recitation.
** 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 176:The alaap is the part of our classical music that I like best. It is an inward voyage, an odyssey into the unknown.

### Anagrams

* Pala, lapa, pa'al, pala

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔa.l̪ap]
* Hyphenation: a‧lap

### Interjection

alap! (Basahan spelling ᜀᜎᜉ᜔)
* cheers!
    Synonym: tagay

## Galo
### Noun

alap
* wing

## Hanunoo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔa.lɐp]
* Rhymes: -alap
* Syllabification: a‧lap

### Noun

alap (Hanunoo spelling ᜠᜮᜩ᜴)
* a stick used in dancing held by a dancer, usually thin, made out of wood, and about 70 centimetres long

#### Usage notes

* At ceremonial dances, one accepts the stick if they are ready to dance.

#### Derived terms

* ialap

#### See also

* pagpakaon

### Further reading

* Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 24

## Hungarian
### Etymology

From al (“lower part”) +‎ -p (hypothetical nominal-forming suffix; obsolete). Created during the Hungarian language reform, which took place in the 18th–19th centuries.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɒlɒp]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: alap
* Rhymes: -ɒp

### Noun

alap (plural alapok)
* base, foundation
* (figuratively, especially in the forms alapon and alapján) (on a…) basis, (on the) basis (of…), (on the) grounds (of…), (by the) token (of…), (as a) matter (of…), (by) reason (of…), (at a/the/that) rate (that…)

#### Derived terms

* alapít
* alapos
* alapoz
* alapszik
* alaptalan
* alapul
* alapzat
* alapalak
* alapanyag
* alapbér
* alapelv
* alapértelmezett
* alapfém
* alapfizetés
* alapfok
* alapismeret
* alapkamat
* alaplap
* alapműveltség
* alapnyelv
* alapszabály
* alapszint
* alapszó
* alapterület
* alapvető
* alapvonal

### References

* ↑ alap in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.
* ↑ alap 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.)
* ↑ alap in Tótfalusi, István. Magyar etimológiai nagyszótár (’Hungarian Comprehensive Dictionary of Etymology’). Budapest: Arcanum Adatbázis, 2001; Arcanum DVD Könyvtár →ISBN

### Further reading

* alap 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
* alap in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Javanese
### Romanization

alap
* Romanization of ꦲꦭꦥ꧀

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /alap/
* Rhymes: -alap, -lap, -ap

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayic *alap, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).
First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription, 683 CE, as Old Malay [script needed] (alap) in inflected form maṅalap (current spelling mengalap).

#### Verb

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)
* (colloquial, Kedah Malay) to gather a fruit using pole (that attached with knife or hook).
* (obsolete) to take.

##### Derived terms

* delapan, lapan
* mengalap
* alap-alap

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

alap (Jawi spelling الڤ)
* slowly, calmly
* (colloquial) quite and gentle.
* unhurried
* within long intervals

### References

* Pijnappel, Jan (1875) “الڤ alap”, in Maleisch-Hollandsch woordenboek, John Enschede en Zonen, Frederik Muller, page 17
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “الڤ alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 31
* Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “alap”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume I, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 17

### Further reading

* “alap” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
* Wilkinson, Richard James. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary. Macmillan. 1965.

## Mongondow
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /aɭap/
* Hyphenation: a‧lap

### Verb

alap
* to catch

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

### Verb

alap
* to take
* to fetch
* to carry off
* to steal
* to seize
* to win

#### Derived terms

* ahalap
* alap-alap
* alap-alapan
* alapan
* aṅalap
* aṅalap-alap
* aṅalap-alapan
* aṅalapi
* inalap
* inalapakĕn
* inalapan
* kinalapan
* kālap
* kālapan
* lapan
* malap
* mālap
* mālap-alapan
* palapa
* palapan
* paṅalap
* paṅalapan
* pinaṅalapakĕn
* pālapa
* umalap

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦲꦭꦥ꧀ (alap)

### Further reading

* "alap" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Tagalog
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *alap, from Proto-Austronesian *alap (“fetch, get, take”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔalap/ [ˈʔaː.lɐp̚]
* Rhymes: -alap
* Syllabification: a‧lap

### Noun

alap (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜎᜉ᜔)
* shift; turn (in a work or assignment)
    Synonyms: turno, halili, halang
* selective cutting or harvesting (of grass, rice, corn, fruits, etc.)
    Synonym: gamas
* recruitment (of laborers)
    Synonym: kalap
* enlistment (into the army or navy)
    Synonym: kalap
* scum
    Synonyms: eskoma, linab
* act of scooping out the scum (on the liquid surface)
    Synonyms: sagap, salap

#### Derived terms

* mag-alapan
* mang-alap
* umalap

#### See also

* gapas
* halapaw
* hapaw
* kalap

### Further reading

* “alap”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* pala-, alpa, pala, lapa