# nep
## Translingual
### Symbol

nep
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Nepali.

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛp/
* Rhymes: -ɛp

### Etymology 1

From Middle English neppe, nepe, nepte, nept, from Old English nepte, nefte, from Latin nepeta. Compare Dutch neppe, nippe (“catnip”). Doublet of nepeta.

#### Alternative forms

* nip (dialectal)

#### Noun

nep (usually uncountable, plural neps)
* Catmint, catnip; Nepeta cataria.
** 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio, published 2007, page 201:Nep is generally used for women to procure their courses, being taken inwardly or outwardly, either alone or with other convenient herbs in a decoction to bathe them, of sit over the hot fumes thereof.

### Etymology 2

Perhaps a variant of nap for knap, from Middle English knep, kneppe, knappe, a conflation of Old English cnep, cnæp, cnæpp (“top, knop, summit”) and Old Norse knappr (“knob”), both from Proto-Germanic *knappaz, *knappô (“knob”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnebʰ- (“to press, tighten”), from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“to pinch, squeeze, bend, press together, ball”). Compare also Old Norse hnappr (“button”). Related to knob.

#### Noun

nep (plural neps)
* A knot in a fibre.
** 1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 130:The neps appear as small dense areas or spots when compared to the surrounding fibers.

##### Derived terms

* neppy

#### Verb

nep (third-person singular simple present neps, present participle nepping, simple past and past participle nepped)
* (UK, dialect, intransitive) Of cotton: to form knots.

### Etymology 3

Short for nepotist.

#### Noun

nep (plural neps)
* (US, slang, derogatory) One who engages in nepotism, usually to the one who benefits from it.

### Anagrams

* PEN, PNe, Pen, pen

## Ainu
### Etymology

From ne (“interrogatory root”) +‎ p (“thing”). See nekon, nen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ne̞p]

### Pronoun

nep (Kana spelling ネㇷ゚)
* (interrogative) what

#### Usage notes

Less common in spoken language than hemanta.

#### Synonyms

* hemanta

### See also

| Personal | Personal | Personal | Qualitative | Quantitative | Temporal | Spacial |
| what? | who? | which? | what kind of? how? | how many? | when? | where? |
| hemanta, nep | hunna, nen | inan | mak, makanak, nekon | henpak | henpara | hunak |

## Dutch
### Etymology

From German Nepp. Originally Bargoens.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /nɛp/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: nep
* Rhymes: -ɛp

### Noun

nep m (uncountable)
* imitation, fake

### Adjective

nep (comparative nepper, superlative nepst)
* fake, not real
* artificial, not natural

#### Declension

Some Dutch speakers may consider attributive use of this adjective informal. Thus, the inflected form neppe is not very commonly used in more formal language. In such language, the word is used more often in compounds formed by prefixing with nep-. The predicative and partitive forms are used normally.

#### Synonyms

* namaak

#### Antonyms

* authentiek
* echt
* natuurlijk

#### Derived terms

* nepneutraliteit
* nepnieuws
* nepperd
* nepvlees

### Anagrams

* pen

## Middle English
### Noun

nep
* Alternative form of nap (“drinking bowl”)

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /neːp/

### Adjective

nēp
* scanty, lacking

#### Derived terms

* nēpflōd

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “nép”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.