# laps
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: lăps, IPA: /læps/
* Homophones: lapse, Lapps

### Noun

laps
* plural of lap

### Verb

laps
* third-person singular simple present indicative of lap

### Anagrams

* salp, alps, ASPL, Alps, APLS, slap, Plas, PALs, pals, ALPs, Pals, PLAs, PALS, LPAs, SPLA, APLs

## Albanian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin lapis.

#### Noun

laps m (plural lapsa, definite lapsi, definite plural lapsat)
* pencil

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *lapitja, close to Greek λαπαρός (laparós, “weak”), λαπάζω (lapázo, “to weaken”).

#### Verb

laps (aorist lapsa, participle lapsur)
* to wear out, tire

##### Conjugation

* Show compound tenses:

### Etymology 3

From Proto-Albanian *laubitja, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, related to Sanskrit लुभ्यति (lúbhyati, “to wish”), Proto-Slavic *l'ubiti (“to love”). Ultimately a doublet of lyp.

#### Verb

laps (aorist lapsa, participle lapsur)
* to wish, want

##### Conjugation

* Show compound tenses:

### References

* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “laps”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191
* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “laps”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 191

### Further reading

* “laps”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “laps”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Danish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laps/, [lɑb̥s]

### Noun

laps c (singular definite lapsen, plural indefinite lapse)
* fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)
* a shabby man [from 1990]

#### Derived terms

* lapset ("foppish", "shabby")

## Estonian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognate with Finnish lapsi.

### Noun

laps (genitive lapse, partitive last)
* child, kid

#### Derived terms

* lapsik
* esiklaps
* lastehaigla

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laps/

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin lapsus (“fall”). Doublet of lapsus.

#### Noun

laps m (plural laps)
* lapse, length (of time)
    un laps de vingt secondes ― a period of twenty seconds
    un laps de quelques heures ― a period of a few hours
    un laps de plusieurs mois ― a period of several months
** 2007, Joseph Combet, Histoire de la ville et du canton d'Uzerche, page 128:[…] mais enfin, en payant ces charges et ces rentes, les personnes en faveur desquelles furent faites les concessions, devinrent propriétaires et seigneurs utils. Ainsi s’évanouirent, après un laps d’environ quatre siècles et demi, les menaces et les imprécations fulminées par l’évêque […](please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Usage notes

* Almost always followed by a complement centered on the concept of time, as in the phrase laps de temps (“a period of time”), or units of time like jours (“days”) or années (“years”).

##### Derived terms

* laps de temps

### Etymology 2

From Latin lapsus (“fallen”).

#### Adjective

laps (invariable)
* (archaic) apostate of Catholicism

##### Derived terms

* laps et relaps

### Further reading

* “laps”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Ingrian
### Alternative forms

* lapsi

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *lapci. Cognates include Finnish lapsi and Estonian laps.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈlɑps/, [ˈɫɑps̠]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈlɑps/, [ˈɫɑpʃ]
* Rhymes: -ɑps
* Hyphenation: laps

### Noun

laps
* child
** 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 34:Keitettii se lapsille.The children stewed it.
** 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:Minen peräst oppii männöö nyt näin paljo lapsia ?Why do now so many children go to school?

#### Derived terms

* (diminutive) lapsukkain
* hooranlaps
* lapsenlaulu
* lapsus
* lehtolaps
* lentävälaps
* oppilaps
* orpolaps
* palkanlaps
* poikalaps
* poikolaps
* rintalaps
* ristilaps
* tyttölaps

### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 249

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laps/, [laps]

### Noun

laps m (definite singular lapsen, indefinite plural lapser, definite plural lapsene)
* fop, dandy (a man very concerned about his clothes and his appearance)

### References

* “laps” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “laps” in The Bokmål Dictionary.