# loper
## English
### Etymology 1

From lope (“to leap, to run”) +‎ -er.

#### Noun

loper (plural lopers)
* One who or that which lopes; a runner; a leaper.
** 2000, Marilyn Elkins, August Wilson: A Casebook:Wolves are very intelligent animals, and they are lopers and they are survivors.
* (ropemaking) A swivel placed at one end of the ropewalk, with the whirl being at the opposite end.

##### Related terms

* interloper
* landloper

### Etymology 2

From American Spanish lobo (“wolf”) (/ˈloβo/), reinterpreted as or conflated with loper (“one who lopes”); compare the alternative forms which reflect other re-interpretations and conflations.

#### Alternative forms

* see list in loafer

#### Noun

loper (plural lopers)
* (Southwestern US dialects) A wolf, especially a grey or timber wolf.
** 1905 April 22, C. Blanco, “Flanking a Wolf”, in Forest and Stream, page 314:When I was still some distance above the ford, about a dozen prairie wolves and one loper* wolf ran up from the water. They told me that there were no Indians near here or they would not be here; and they were not here long, either. [...] the big loper left on a slow gallop [...] Loper, corruption of Sp. lobo, wolf.
** 1936, James Shannon Buchanan, Chronicles of Oklahoma:Besides the cattle company paid a bounty for each coyote, loper wolf, panther, bobcat or bear. We had to buy our own six-shooter but the company furnished ammunition free. So it can be seen why most cowboys were pretty good shots.

##### Usage notes

* Often used in compound with "wolf": "loper wolf".

#### Further reading

* Belford's Magazine, 1890, page 713: “It is the great gray wolf; called the "loper" wolf in Texas, not because of his gait, but because his Spanish name is "lobo," and has been slightly changed by certain frontier Americans […]”
* 1905, Jerome Constant Smiley, National Live Stock Association of the United States, Prose and Poetry of the Live Stock Industry of the United States: With Outlines of the Origin and Ancient History of Our Live Stock Animals, page 719:
    […] was the greatest pest of the country[,] the great gray wolf, otherwise known as the "timber wolf," the "buffalo wolf," the "loper wolf," the "loafer wolf," and the "lobo wolf."

### Anagrams

* lepro-, poler, prole

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch loper (“walker, runner, messenger, bishop (chess piece), carpet, master key, offshoot”), from Middle Dutch lopere (“runner, messenger, walker”). Equivalent to loop +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

loper (plural lopers, diminutive lopertjie)
* (chess) bishop; chess piece that moves diagonally
* walker; someone who walks
* (archaic) runner; someone who runs or moves quickly
* (historical) messenger, that delivers messages by foot
* (botany) shoot or sprout that forms at the end of roots from which new shoots or sprouts develop
* (botany, uncommon) tendrils of creepers and vines used for support

#### Synonyms

* (chess piece): biskop
* (messenger): boodskapper
* (tendril): rank

#### See also

Chess pieces in Afrikaans · skaakstukke (skaak + stukke) (layout · text) :
| koning | dame | toring | loper | ruiter | pion |

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch lopere. Equivalent to lopen +‎ -er.
In the chess sense, likely a semantic loan from German Läufer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈloː.pər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: lo‧per
* Rhymes: -oːpər

### Noun

loper m (plural lopers, diminutive lopertje n)
* runner
    Synonyms: hardloper, renner
* somebody who walks
* a carpet
    rode loper — red carpet
* (chess) bishop
    Synonym: raadsheer
* master key
    Synonym: moedersleutel
* message runner, messager who runs on foot
* (archaic) shoot from the roots of a plant
    Synonym: uitloper

#### Derived terms

* brandingloper
* marathonloper
* steenloper
* strandloper
* uitloper

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: loper
* Indonesian: loper
* Petjo: loper

### See also

Chess pieces in Dutch · schaakstukken (schaak + stukken) (layout · text) :
| koning | koningin, dame | toren | loper, bisschop, raadsheer | paard | pion |

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch loper, from Middle Dutch lopere.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lo.pər/
* Hyphenation: lo‧pêr

### Noun

lopêr
* (colloquial) deliveryman, that delivers newspaper, and so on.
* (chess) bishop: the chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.
    Synonyms: menteri, gajah, luncup

#### Related terms

* pelopor

### See also

Chess pieces in Indonesian · buah catur (see also: catur) (layout · text) :
| raja | menteri, patih, ratu, ster | benteng | gajah, loper, menteri, luncung, luncur, peluncur | kuda | bidak, pion, prajurit |

### Further reading

* “loper” 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.